Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 990 | View more quotes about virtue">Virtue, I discovered, is one way in which a human being may attempt to diminish and insult others. |
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 987 | I would not now lie or cheat or steal, of course, but not now because I did not care for that sort of thing, or did not wish to behave in such a fashion, but primarily because I was not the sort of person who would do that sort of thing. |
| 15 | 988 | It was beneath me. |
| 15 | 989 | I was too good to behave in such a fashion. |
| 15 | 990 | Virtue, I discovered, is one way in which a human being may attempt to diminish and insult others. |
| 15 | 991 | I used the blade of cooperativeness, of virtue, of diligence, of punctuality to proclaim myself better than the others, all of them. |
| 15 | 992 | Mostly I prided myself on my moral superiority as a woman, above the self-indulgent, contaminating weaknesses of their piteous needs. |
| 15 | 993 | I was not as they. |
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I would not now lie or cheat or steal, of course, but not now because I did not care for that sort of thing, or did not wish to behave in such a fashion, but primarily because I was not the sort of person who would do that sort of thing.
It was beneath me.
I was too good to behave in such a fashion.
Virtue, I discovered, is one way in which a human being may attempt to diminish and insult others.
I used the blade of cooperativeness, of virtue, of diligence, of punctuality to proclaim myself better than the others, all of them.
Mostly I prided myself on my moral superiority as a woman, above the self-indulgent, contaminating weaknesses of their piteous needs.
I was not as they.
- (Captive of Gor)