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A tyrant state always wishes to disarm the public, for it understands its secret intents with respect to that public, and wants it at its mercy. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 5, Sentence #582)

"They planned swiftly, and well," said another fellow, shuddering. "Weapons had been forbidden to the populace," said another, but many had been concealed, and there is little which may not figure as a weapon, axes and hammers, the implements of agriculture, planks, poles and sticks, the very stones of the streets". I nodded. A tyrant state always wishes to disarm the public, for it understands its secret intents with respect to that public, and wants it at its mercy. This disarming is always, of course, alleged to be in the public's best interest, as though the public would be safest when least capable of defending itself. "Many of Ar, particularly in the higher, richer cylinders," said a fellow, "had collaborated with us, had abetted the occupation, had shared in the looting of the city". I supposed that was true. - (Swordsmen of Gor)