Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 978 | It is difficult to View more quotes about know">know what would constitute a good society. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 975 | I do not know. |
| 9 | 976 | Only on Gor had I felt my true femaleness, and that in the presence of Gorean males, who owned or could own me, men capable of owning a woman, as most men of Earth simply are not. |
| 9 | 977 | My femaleness had been suppressed on Earth, first by my own conditioning, the confused product of centuries of intellectual and social pathology, and, secondly, by the set of societal institutions in which I had grown up and existed, rather than lived, institutions to which sexuality was irrelevant, if not inimical. |
| 9 | 978 | It is difficult to know what would constitute a good society. |
| 9 | 979 | Perhaps it would be a necessary condition for such a society that its institutions would be compatible, at least, with the truths of biology. |
| 9 | 980 | A society which sickens and weakens its members, which cripples them and denies them to themselves, is not obviously superior to a society in which human beings are organic and whole, healthy, and happy and great. |
| 9 | 981 | The test of a society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members. |
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I do not know.
Only on Gor had I felt my true femaleness, and that in the presence of Gorean males, who owned or could own me, men capable of owning a woman, as most men of Earth simply are not.
My femaleness had been suppressed on Earth, first by my own conditioning, the confused product of centuries of intellectual and social pathology, and, secondly, by the set of societal institutions in which I had grown up and existed, rather than lived, institutions to which sexuality was irrelevant, if not inimical.
It is difficult to know what would constitute a good society.
Perhaps it would be a necessary condition for such a society that its institutions would be compatible, at least, with the truths of biology.
A society which sickens and weakens its members, which cripples them and denies them to themselves, is not obviously superior to a society in which human beings are organic and whole, healthy, and happy and great.
The test of a society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)