Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 1199 | How could we? We may be ignorant, but we are not View more quotes about stupid">stupid. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 1196 | As I have learned, "barbarians" are commonly taken to be simple, stupid, ignorant, uncouth, crude, unrefined, untutored, uncivilized, and, in general, worthless, and far inferior to native Goreans. |
| 8 | 1197 | But even your physicians, your men of medicine and health, the members of your green caste, will assure you that we are much the same as you. |
| 8 | 1198 | Had I been born on Gor and you on Earth, would I not, then, be the Gorean and you the barbarian? It is not our fault if we do not know what you know, your caste customs, your legends, your political arrangements, the histories of your cities, your holidays, your famous generals, musicians, poets, and such. |
| 8 | 1199 | How could we? We may be ignorant, but we are not stupid. |
| 8 | 1200 | To you we may seem lacking, to be simple, primitive, and barbarous, and, doubtless, in a way, we are, but these differences, I assure you, have to do with our history and background, not with what we are in ourselves, apart from such things. |
| 8 | 1201 | If we are so obviously inferior to you, it is a cultural inferiority, and only that. |
| 8 | 1202 | Certainly we have certain qualities which you recognize, which have value. |
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As I have learned, "barbarians" are commonly taken to be simple, stupid, ignorant, uncouth, crude, unrefined, untutored, uncivilized, and, in general, worthless, and far inferior to native Goreans.
But even your physicians, your men of medicine and health, the members of your green caste, will assure you that we are much the same as you.
Had I been born on Gor and you on Earth, would I not, then, be the Gorean and you the barbarian? It is not our fault if we do not know what you know, your caste customs, your legends, your political arrangements, the histories of your cities, your holidays, your famous generals, musicians, poets, and such.
How could we? We may be ignorant, but we are not stupid.
To you we may seem lacking, to be simple, primitive, and barbarous, and, doubtless, in a way, we are, but these differences, I assure you, have to do with our history and background, not with what we are in ourselves, apart from such things.
If we are so obviously inferior to you, it is a cultural inferiority, and only that.
Certainly we have certain qualities which you recognize, which have value.
- (Conspirators of Gor)