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Unhappiness and misery is a high cost to pay for the denial of nature; it is well, I suppose, at least, that the victims are encouraged to think well of themselves, taking their unease, grief, and wretchedness as badges of rectitude. - (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter 4, Sentence #122)

Perhaps the major difference between these worlds is that in one nature is feared and rejected, with the result that civilization is essentially a denial of nature, almost its antithesis, a war conducted against a suspect nature, as though nature was an enemy, to be suppressed at all costs, rather than the foundation of one's very being. On Gor, civilization is not a flight from nature, but its acceptance, refinement, and enhancement. Gorean culture is built on nature, and within it, not against it, and apart from it. Unhappiness and misery is a high cost to pay for the denial of nature; it is well, I suppose, at least, that the victims are encouraged to think well of themselves, taking their unease, grief, and wretchedness as badges of rectitude. You may teach a bird that flight is evil, and break its wings, but its heart will always remember the sky. The auctioneer had begun taking bids on the barbarian. I would not bid. - (Smugglers of Gor)