Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 41 | 12 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps such things are best changed only incrementally, and then only with circumspection. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 41 | 9 | But is it not often the case that a disgruntled scion of the elite, one of station, if not of principle, eager for greater power, will seek to exploit the discontent and resentments of others for his own purposes? Demagogues are unstinting and lavish, careless and generous, in expending the blood of others. |
| 41 | 10 | It is not their own. |
| 41 | 11 | Behind how many gleaming veils, emblazoned with rhetorical embroideries, lurk secret, unbespoken realities? Too, societal life, like organic life, I supposed, had its inertias and habits, and balances, emerging over generations, sustained over time, vindicated in practice. |
| 41 | 12 | Perhaps such things are best changed only incrementally, and then only with circumspection. |
| 41 | 13 | Change is part of life; but an advantageous metamorphosis is rare. |
| 41 | 14 | How simple the complexity of the world seems to the simple, and arrogant. |
| 41 | 15 | The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels. |
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But is it not often the case that a disgruntled scion of the elite, one of station, if not of principle, eager for greater power, will seek to exploit the discontent and resentments of others for his own purposes? Demagogues are unstinting and lavish, careless and generous, in expending the blood of others.
It is not their own.
Behind how many gleaming veils, emblazoned with rhetorical embroideries, lurk secret, unbespoken realities? Too, societal life, like organic life, I supposed, had its inertias and habits, and balances, emerging over generations, sustained over time, vindicated in practice.
Perhaps such things are best changed only incrementally, and then only with circumspection.
Change is part of life; but an advantageous metamorphosis is rare.
How simple the complexity of the world seems to the simple, and arrogant.
The law of gravity may be objectionable, but with what is it to be replaced? In any event, whatever might be the cause, most insurrections fail, and those that succeed seldom do more than restore the past with new bodies and different labels.
- (Conspirators of Gor)