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Truth

Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	72	On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o...	10
6	117	"How is it that the daughter of the Ubar will return the Home Stone of Ar when you carry in your belt the tarn-goad?" Suddenly I realized the truth of what he had said and was amazed that it had not occurred to me before.	10
8	38	"He tells the truth".	10
8	187	I knew that she spoke the truth or something much like it.	10
14	39	"This is a terrible truth," he said, "and so consider it carefully".	10
14	146	The first guess would be that my body had torn in two, and the darkness would conceal the truth for a moment, until the tarnsman himself would try the ropes, to test the weight of their burden.	10
19	194	I knew I spoke the truth.	10

Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	107	But I go to the Sardar for more than truth; foremost in my brain there burns, like an imperative of steel, the cry for blood-vengeance, mine by sword-right, mine by the affinities of blood and caste and city, mine for I am one pledged to avenge a vanished people, fallen walls and towers, a city frow...	10
4	23	I sought a truth I did not know, but knew I must discover—and it lay at the end of this road.	10
21	151	Yet what other reason was there? Feeling stupid, I told him the truth.	10
22	104	I knew she had spoken the truth.	10

Book 3. (9 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	140	"With most," he said, "it is as you think, and they are simple, believing members of my caste, and there are others who suspect the truth and are tormented, or who suspect the truth and will pretend—but I, Om, High Initiate of Ar, and certain of the High Initiates are like none of these".	10
1	102	I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes.	10
5	233	I supposed she spoke the truth.	10
8	9	She had spoken the truth.	10
9	14	On the whole I find her more joyful than many of her Earth-inhabiting sisters who, theoretically at least, enjoy a more lofty status, although it is surely true that on my old world I have met several women with something of the Gorean zest for acknowledging the radiant truth of their sex, the gifts...	10
17	164	"The truth is," said Sarm, "that the human is a dangerous and predatory species".	10
28	159	"I think he speaks the truth," I said.	10
28	161	I too think he speaks the truth".	10
33	153	I looked at the Initiate for a long time, and wondered if he spoke the truth.	10

Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	76	I did not know then, but Kutaituchik and Kamchak had some reason for supposing that the girl might be speaking the truth.	10
13	60	"Do you know who fears to tell the truth?" he asked.	10
25	389	"The Goreans recognize," I said, "that this truth is hard for women to understand, that they will reject it, that they will fear it and fight it".	10
26	467	"Forgive me," he said, "if I am cruel—for I am a Tuchuk—but though I care much for you I had to know the truth of these matters".	10

Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	384	"Even a drug or torture," pointed out Misk, "will only reveal what the individual believes to be the truth, not necessarily what the truth is.	10
18	229	"Superstition," said he, "proclaimed as truth, will always conquer truth, ridiculed as superstition".	10
5	383	"Perhaps they have seized some of these humans," I said, "and interrogated them, finding out if they tell the truth or not, by means of drugs or tortures".	10
15	185	Flaminius, for a time, accepted and encouraged counter-arguments, patiently, as though waiting for the girls, when their simple minds permitted it, to understand the truth of what he said.	10
15	193	I expect both, and I am certain that Flaminius, recognized the errors and exaggerations of their own position, but neither was concerned with the truth; both were concerned only with victory, and pleasing themselves.	10

Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	335	They had cost me the concept that I had taken for my reality; they had torn from me a bright image, an illusion, precious and treasured, an unwarranted reflection of suppositions and wishes, not examined, which I had taken to be the truth of my identity.	10
8	422	It was she who had done this to me, who had cost me myself, teaching me my ignobility and my cowardice, who had broken the image, casting it into the mud of the marsh, that I had for so many years, so foolishly, taken as the substance and truth of my own person.	10
15	287	At any rate, whatever be the truth in these matters, the singer, in his darkness, was now alone with his songs.	10
18	56	And so, then, I asked myself, might we not then sing for them, and for ourselves as well, and could there not be, in some way that was hard to understand, but good, truth in songs? I went to the tarn that I had ridden back to the Dorna.	10
18	902	"It is only in such moments," said Samos, "that a man sometimes learns that all truth and all reality is not written in one's own codes".	10

Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1013	But what most I now feared, and most hysterically rejected, was the suspicion that there might lurk in my deepest being a profound turning, a sudden, cataclysmic transformation of my consciousness, the possibility that I might admit to myself, confess to myself, a truth I dared not even articulate.	10
15	628	"The first one," he said, "tells the truth.	10
15	1059	"Now," said Ute, with satisfaction, "El-in-or, the slave, speaks the truth".	10
16	384	"But must I speak the truth?" I asked.	10
16	395	The absolute truth must be spoken to a Gorean master.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	231	Something in the girl's manner convinced me that she spoke the truth.	10
10	219	I know of no language in which the truth may be spoken.	10
10	220	The truth can be seen, and felt, and known, but I do not think it may be spoken.	10

Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	166	They would have fallen into truth, but to take truth for granted is not to know it.	10
10	365	Free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not themselves as beautiful as women found fit, by lusty men...	10
1	161	This suggests that there may be a true answer, for how can there be falsity without truth? One thing seems clear to me, that a morality which produces guilt and self-torture, which results in anxiety and agony, which shortens life spans, cannot be the answer.	10
1	167	Truth not won is not possessed.	10
1	386	"Truth is cruel," said Samos.	10
10	293	"He is proving that he has told the truth," said the Forkbeard.	10
16	128	It seemed to me not impossible that, at the root of the legends, the sagas, of Torvald, there might be some particles of truth.	10
21	176	I forced the truth from him.	10

Book 10. (18 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	206	"No!" "On such a girl," I said, "brand and collar are no more than emblems, mere tokens, proclaiming on her body the truth of her, the deepest truth of her, which no longer may she conceal".	10
6	28	"Remember to tell the truth, and only the truth".	10
6	55	"Masters! I have told the truth! The truth!" The pawl was moved yet another notch.	10
1	13	"Yet," said Samos, "I think it is important that we come to the truth in this matter".	10
6	57	"Have you told the truth, pretty Zaya?" inquired Ibn Saran.	10
6	76	"If you tell the truth," he said, "you will not be hurt".	10
6	77	"I will tell the truth, Master," she said.	10
6	82	"What is the truth, pretty Vella?" asked Ibn Saran.	10
6	85	"The truth," she said, "is as Ibn Saran says".	10
6	102	"Why do you, slaves, tell the truth?" he asked.	10
13	415	Why should she not learn the truth, even, if need be, stripped, on her knees, her lips pressed fearfully to the whip? Certainly Earth women have much to learn on Gor.	10
17	73	We do know they will seek the truth.	10
17	76	Perhaps we cannot see truth.	10
23	224	"Suleiman speaks the truth," said he.	10
24	59	They remind her of the fundamental truth of her being, that she is owned, that she is slave.	10
24	465	They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e...	10
24	821	It may, in certain circumstances, be politically expedient to deny this truth, but that is a separate question and involves separate issues".	10
26	969	"If a woman is truly a slave," I said, "then it would seem best that she not deny this truth, this reality, but rather accept it, and then be joyfully the best slave she can be.	10

Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	871	How ashamed I was! I asked myself what could it mean? Could the feelings which had overwhelmed me be denied? Could the sensate truth, the splendor of biological submission, so different from the truth of a man, which is that of domination, in whose glory I had been wrapped, be denied? I resolved tha...	10
1	192	The full consciousness of my waking state, and my awareness of truth, welled up within me.	10
3	393	Objectively I grant you the truth of that.	10
3	394	Yet a girl who has been marked finds this obvious truth difficult to accept psychologically.	10
4	824	Well and deeply it marked me as what I now had no doubt I was, what tonight I had been well taught I was, what I, in truth, incontrovertibly, now was, a slave girl.	10
4	866	Yet I knew, in truth, it had happened.	10
4	1030	This truth, much fought and feared, long denied, accepted, burst upon me with a blaze of freedom.	10
7	54	Whatever be the truth of these intricate geopolitical matters, it seems clear that Marlenus, for whatever reason, does not see fit to encourage the growth of the Salerian Confederation.	10
9	429	Could they believe a world might exist where men, shouting political slogans, vied with one another to surrender their dominance, hastening gleefully to their own castration? Could such a world be welcomed by any save man-haters, freaks, frustrates and Lesbians, and men who were not men? Truth and p...	10
9	972	They need tell no one the answer to that most private and revealing of questions, unless perhaps they meet one before whom they can speak only the truth, their master.	10
12	71	But it is not hard to know the truth in these matters.	10
14	314	How could she have known my plan? "You think then he will free me, and free you, for having told him this truth".	10
27	359	How precious and glorious it is, she learns, to be a woman! And how joyfully and wondrously different it is from a man! At last she becomes true to herself and in this truth she rids herself of miseries, anxieties, conflicts, and fears; she is no longer a politically engineered social artifact, but ...	10

Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	43	I think if they knew the truth in these matters the code words would flash between the steel worlds, the ports would open, and the ships would nose forth, turning toward Gor.	10
2	365	Regardless of what the truth should be in these matters, whether it be that man is intrinsically a mechanism of chemicals, or, more than this, a conscious, living animal whose pain and meaning, and defiance, emergent, must transcend the interactions of carbon and oxygen, the exchange of gases, the o...	10
3	596	Already, despite her Earth background, so astonishingly and incomprehensibly other than her current reality, she clearly suspected the truth, that they had been selected for embondment, and that they were perhaps even now slaves—literally that—even now, slaves.	10
15	258	"Well," I said, "if the truth must be told, it does, considerably, enhance your beauty.	10
21	103	"Must a girl tell the truth?" she smiled.	10
21	212	"Is a slave not expected to tell the truth?" "Yes," I said, irritably.	10
21	213	"Surely then you have no objection to a girl's recognizing the objective truth that all men are scoundrels".	10
21	250	"I think, perhaps, that some human beings, here and there, even in the midst of the suffering, even in the very countries of confusion and pathology, will create for themselves small islands of reality and truth".	10
21	281	Let men choose between them, between the stereotype and the truth, between the pain and the pleasure, between the unhappy and the happy, between the tasteless and the delicious, between sickness and health, between suffering and joy".	10
21	283	"But regardless of the truth in these matters," I said, "you are objectively my slave.	10
23	322	I supposed, in truth, there were other operations or facilities on this world, but I did not know their location".	10
23	362	I thought it likely that she had told the truth.	10
24	198	Present then is the sweet thrilling truth, at last freed, no longer suppressed and hidden, and love".	10
32	105	"It would be wrong for you to die in the machine of truth," he said.	10
35	816	"How do I know you speak the truth?" I said.	10

Book 13. (13 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	53	Culture decides what is truth, but truth, unfortunately for culture, is unaware of this.	10
10	31	But if there were truth in this I think there was, too, a higher truth involved.	10
13	298	Perhaps these things are your truth, your truth.	10
1	54	Cultures, mad and blind, can die upon the rocks of truth.	10
1	55	Why can truth not be the foundation of culture, rather than its nemesis? Can one not build upon the stone cliffs of reality rather than dash one's head against them? But how few human beings can think, how few dare to inquire, how few can honestly question.	10
11	59	You confuse the pretense with the truth, the artificial and imitative with the reality.	10
12	270	The relation of master and slave, of course, in a psychophysical organism, of a high order of intelligence, such as the human being, is a beautiful and profound expression of the fundamental and central truth of animal nature, that of order and structure, and dominance and submission.	10
16	162	"But what of truth?" I asked.	10
16	163	"Truth is more troublesome," he admitted.	10
18	49	I contented myself with the thought that deeds had been done, which now, whether recollected or not, or however viewed, were irrevocably fixed in their fullness and truth in the fabric of eternity.	10
32	69	Could I know the truth of her? Could I know how she had confessed herself slave and needful of my touch? Of course not, for I had been asleep, and I could not understand her English.	10
34	654	At any rate, whatever the truth may be in these matters, feminine women, perhaps to the horror of their more masculine sisters, seem to take naturally to the beauties of erotic dance.	10
34	931	Then she said, "It is well that I spoke the truth".	10

Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	99	"That is a logical truth," I said.	10
1	242	"Your official position, whatever its political values, is a perversion not only of truth but of biology".	10
1	284	"It is the truth I wish to hear," she said, "whatever it is".	10
1	285	"Perhaps," I said, "the truth is the last thing you wish to hear".	10
1	288	"Suppose that the truth were that you were, in your heart, a female slave".	10
2	150	"You will better be able to adjudge the truth of that matter later," he said, "when you awaken chained in a Gorean dungeon".	10
7	253	I wondered if there could be a politics which did not betray truth.	10
7	410	I knew that she spoke the truth.	10
7	575	Was I strong enough to accept honestly what I might find there? Is it not safer to cower in the caves of lies than stand upon the cliffs of truth, surveying the world? Yet when one stands in the sunlight, and feels the winds of reality, how dank and shameful seem the dark shelters of falsehood, and ...	10
19	429	I wondered where the truth in these matters might lie.	10
25	92	"Does Master speak the truth?" I asked.	10
25	96	"I speak the truth!" "Bet," I told him.	10
29	115	"I told you," she said, "I told you in my room, before, I sold her! I sold her!" "But you did not tell the truth," I said.	10

Book 15. (13 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	51	"Even though you are, in truth, a woman?" "Yes," she said.	10
3	180	"I speak the truth," I said.	10
11	180	The cultural penalties inflicted on those who speak the truth can be severe.	10
11	349	It is always hard to know the truth and pretend not to believe it.	10
11	356	Can the human reality, in the fullness of its truth, be truly so fearful a thing.	10
11	367	Perhaps the bed of Procrustes is the truth and men must be broken or cut to pieces that they may fit it.	10
11	568	"Can it truly be one's duty not to believe the truth?" she asked.	10
11	581	"To look upon truth, openly," I said, "could be a fearful thing".	10
22	113	Could it be, I wondered, that she might be a slave, truly? And, if so, what ought, in the claimant justice of biology and truth, to be her disposition? But, of course, she, of Earth, could not be a slave! Not she! I recalled her.	10
24	477	Is man so foolish, so naive and habit-bound, so fundamentally irrational, so ready to believe anything that he might be taught, no matter how absurd, that he cannot understand that torture cannot be truth.	10
24	478	The test for truth, surely, must not be pain, misery and frustration, but happiness and joy.	10
26	69	I am now a slave, and a slave must speak the truth.	10
26	71	So do not punish me for speaking the truth, I beg of you! I am a slave! I have no alternative, Master!" "Is it then, truly," I asked, "what you want to be?" "Oh, yes, Master! Yes, Master! That is what I want to be, and what somehow I have always wanted to be, a master's pleasure slave!" "Why is that...	10

Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	138	What sorry costs might attend such words! I wondered if truth was really so terrible.	10
17	470	"Now you speak the truth," I said.	10
18	468	Who knows? Goreans, however, we might note, whatever be the truth in these matters, have chosen contentment, and love.	10
20	789	Should not, rather, one be more ashamed by deceit than the truth? Can there truly be a greater honor in hypocrisy than in honesty? It does not seem so.	10
20	799	Ultimately they must perish in the flames of truth".	10
21	651	Tremble, girl! You are owned, slut!" "Hopefully," she said, "a slave will not be beaten for speaking the truth".	10

Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	821	To speak the truth is very important to the red savages.	10
1	1213	On the hide of the kailiauk one may paint only truth".	10
1	1217	"It is a belief of the red savages that if they are unworthy, or do not speak the truth, that their shield will not protect them.	10
1	1221	"I shall accept," said Samos, "that the artist is sincere, that he believes himself to be telling the truth".	10
13	1622	"You have bound me, then," she said, "as a slave!" "Now you speak the truth," I informed her.	10
14	488	This type of thing, incidentally, does not count, culturally, as a violation of truth telling, a practice which the red savages take with great seriousness.	10
16	231	"It is the test of truth," he said.	10
17	446	Another approach might be to envision a world compatible with reality and congenial to human nature, a world in which science, even social science, might be free, a world in which truth would not be against the law, a world designed not for the crippling, distortion and torture of humanity but for i...	10
17	546	"Why not experiment with the truth?" I said.	10
17	547	"We already believe the truth," said one of the fellows about.	10
17	617	Truth is praised, and judiciously avoided.	10
17	618	Is this not human cleverness at its most remarkable? Who knows in what way the sword of truth will cut? Some men, it seems, would rather die for their beliefs than analyze them.	10

Book 18. (26 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	348	The teaching is the truth, and the truth is the teaching".	10
30	61	It is an interesting question whether or not such competitive belief systems can be replaced with truth; truth, like the belief systems, is irrefutable, but its irrefutability is not a function of emptiness, of cognitive vacuity, but of its rectitude.	10
2	370	"Do I not speak the truth?" Canka clenched his fists, in fury.	10
6	110	I did not doubt but what Hci spoke the truth.	10
7	895	"Now you speak the truth!" she said.	10
14	102	"Truth does not need to be afraid of falsity.	10
14	103	Truth is not fearful and weak".	10
14	112	"Thus," I said, "ignorance is the bulwark of truth".	10
14	128	"The alternative of falsehood," I said, "is not chaos, but truth".	10
14	130	"Try truth," I said.	10
19	17	It was there, too, perhaps, in the loneliness and pain of the dance, that he wished himself to learn the truth in this secret and momentous matter.	10
22	237	Truth is not terrible; it is merely real".	10
30	62	Truth, you see, has reality on its side.	10
30	63	Truth's problems do not derive primarily from the complexity of nature but from the simplicity of people.	10
30	65	Too, the often cold and flinty nature of truth may, to many people, understandably, constitute a poor substitute for the comforts of self-deception.	10
32	227	"Little is actually needed for the truth of the dance," said Cuwignaka.	10
33	446	Her truth was manifested.	10
39	172	"Too," she said, "in bondage we find that we live our truth.	10
40	34	But then, I reminded myself, how insuppressible is man, how tenacious is truth.	10
40	667	In that moment I surrendered to my secret truth.	10
40	668	What I have done now is little more than to proclaim and make public that secret truth.	10
40	778	"Accordingly, miserable, embonded slut," I said, "you must speak the truth".	10
40	783	"I am a slave," she said, "and I must tell the truth.	10
40	805	"She speaks the truth," I said.	10
40	814	"Do you think she speaks the truth?" he asked.	10
43	74	"After all, a slave must tell the truth".	10

Book 19. (18 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	851	But then I thought that if women should be submissive, then, whatever might be the truth in these matters, such postures would be appropriate and natural for them.	10
4	208	"That the truth might be spoken in Corcyrus," he said, "that the misery and anger of the people might be declared!" "Prepare his neck," said Ligurious.	10
6	514	Where I had needed reality and truth I had been given only lies, propaganda and false values.	10
6	616	But whatever might be the truth about such matters, or the optimum ways of viewing them, female slavery, on Gor, was a fact.	10
10	122	"Truth," he said.	10
26	150	You have forced us to face this truth about ourselves, and admit it".	10
28	43	Let her then be collared! Whatever may be the truth in these matters it is a fact that almost all of the dancers on Gor are slaves.	10
31	541	Here, on Gor, there were none of the confusions, the denials, the lies and ambiguities of Earth; here there was clarity, structure and truth.	10
33	193	"That is no friendship, beloved Miles," said Drusus Rencius, "which can be jeopardized by truth".	10
33	229	I maintain that the truth which she would cry out under torture would be no different from that which you have already heard freely spoken".	10
33	756	"I shall inquire into truth as I please," said another.	10
36	471	There was some truth, of course, or at least I thought so, to these charges.	10
36	626	"Have you reconsidered the telling of truth?" he asked.	10
36	691	The secret, however, which seems to elude many free women, though perhaps they suspect the truth, to their fury, is that preferred slaves, or favored slaves, though no more than owned animals, perhaps purchased in a market, as might be goods of any sort, do sometimes share the surface of the couch.	10
36	782	"Now, at last, you speak the truth," he said.	10
36	1281	Gorean sexuality has a place for high intelligence, and rationality, and honesty, and truth, and profound, resilient human passion.	10
36	1418	"I see that my master speaks the truth," I said.	10
36	1607	"It speaks the truth not only of my legal condition," I said, "but of my heart".	10

Book 20. (8 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	418	I saw that she, already, now a slave, deeply sensed the truth of his words.	10
2	1337	If they were, I should be happy, but I am not! I do not want respect and dignity! I want fulfillment, and truth!" I saw that her sexual drives were far too strong to be appropriate for those of a free woman.	10
2	1601	She at least had never turned her back on nature, and truth.	10
6	905	"How can I know that you speak the truth?" he asked, thoughtfully.	10
10	353	Too, she had spoken the truth.	10
16	1096	At any rate, whatever might be the truth and falsity in such matters, poor Bina would not now be permitted to so much as touch the pieces of the game.	10
19	93	I supposed he might be telling the truth.	10
22	360	"Do you think to put the torch to truth?" he asked.	10

Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	1632	"She is now telling the truth," said Boabissia.	10
19	54	"Let her be tortured for the truth," said Boabissia.	10
22	369	In any event, whatever might be the truth in these matters, it seems clear that each should be true to themselves, and their own nature.	10
24	608	"It is amusing," he said, "that you held slaves in such great contempt, and treated them with such cruelty, for such is what you were all the time, and as such, revealed, in your full truth, you will now live".	10
25	67	He had, it seemed, if he were telling the truth, and I had no particular reason to doubt it, found the message thrust under his door.	10
26	358	Perhaps you are telling the truth".	10
26	1228	"Lock it on me! Make it so I cannot remove it! Heat an iron! Brand me! Put a slave mark in me! Do it! Do it! It is what I am! Burn that truth into me.	10
27	199	Is the morality and truth of these matters to be found in external proclamations, in alien agendas, scratched by self-promoting, dictatorial vandals on cold sidewalks, scribbled on labyrinths of confining fences by the ignorant and violent, inscribed on the billboards of intolerant, manipulative, se...	10

Book 22. (13 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	689	Why could they not recognize this? Why could they not explicitly acknowledge this truth, so patent a truth? Because the slave was merely a slave, nothing, only a silken beast and a shapely property! And how foolish a slave to hope that a master might care for one so worthless and despicable as she! ...	10
1	100	Surely only a terrible woman, a low woman, a shameful, wicked, worthless woman, a reproach to her entire sex, one with depths and needs antedating her century, one with needs not indexed to political orthodoxies, one with needs older and deeper, and more real and profound, more ancient and marvelous...	10
6	27	But I had now learned that he had spoken the truth.	10
6	446	But regardless of what the truth in these matters might have been, I was certainly not eager, now, to make the acquaintance of such women.	10
6	447	After they were stripped and in chains, and crouching fearfully, with branded thighs, their necks in collars, fearing the whips of men, that would be soon enough for me, if ever! We were, at least as of now, regardless of what might be the fundamental and ultimate truth in these matters, quite diffe...	10
13	188	But regardless of the truth or falsity of such things, and regardless of the explanations or reasons for the things which lay so deep within me, whether they were recollective or merely the irrepressible fruits of genetic truths, so anomalous in my own time, so uncharacteristic of everything I had b...	10
13	214	It was for such a reason, I suppose, at least in part, as well as for the stimulation and truth, and fittingness, of it, that I had made the tiny garment of red silk I had had on Earth.	10
20	156	They are taken for granted, usually, by all the citizens, and their remote origins, sometimes doubtless the outcome of internecine strife, of class war, of street fighting and riots, of bloody, house-to-house determinations in the past, and such, are seldom investigated, save perhaps by historians, ...	10
27	149	Would they not simply take off her clothes and punish her, and then hand her over to a praetor, for her proper disposition? Too, what could such a pretense gain her but the closing of doors on the truth of her being? But even if these things were not true, as she feared they were, she did not wish t...	10
29	1375	Yet it seemed he had not in truth followed me to recapture me and punish me, visiting upon me the terrible severities to be suitably visited upon a runaway slave.	10
29	1429	As Tupita used the expression, though, in such a spontaneous, and heartfelt way, it expressed in its way, I think, a truth of her heart, that she in her heart belonged to him, that she in her heart was his slave.	10
34	180	"I think it must be the case that all women, at least when they are alone, know the truth, if only in their bellies".	10
34	641	I must speak the truth".	10

Book 23. (22 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	421	The name of truth all prize; the face of truth most fear.	10
5	747	"I am above them!" "But what if they were your truth, and nature?" I said.	10
5	781	Too, she had not even been informed that she was, in truth, subject to guest use.	10
6	418	The misrepresentations and concealments, of course, are then called "truth".	10
6	419	Truth, crushed to earth, is supposed to rise again, but if it didn't, we wouldn't know it.	10
6	420	Indeed, if it did have the temerity to show up, it could probably count on being suppressed again as rapidly as possible, in the name, of course, of "truth".	10
6	422	Yet I think the nature of truth is not that terrible.	10
8	432	"Last night I found the truth of my being confirmed upon me.	10
8	433	Now I shall be forever empty unless I am permitted to live my truth, what I truly am".	10
10	79	"Sirs," cried Klio, "soldiers of Cos, warriors for truth and justice, redressers of wrongs, kinsmen from across the sea, I am Lady Klio, of Telnus, of Cos! I am a free woman! I beg your kindness, your indulgence, your protection! Rescue me from this barbarian! Clothe and honor me! Return me in digni...	10
11	116	Some women occasionally desire to be bound and feel the whip, for at least a stroke or two, as it reassures them that they are in truth their master's slave.	10
14	80	Yes, I thought to myself, you are free, but what is that now but a matter of civic status, the consequence of a trivial, not-yet-officially-rescinded legal technicality? For already you have begun to sense, and learn, the meaning of your beauty, and the truth of your inmost being.	10
15	40	Had I not led her to believe that I might be of assistance to her? Had I not tried to keep up her courage? But I realized now she had never expected me, really, in the moment of truth, so to speak, to act.	10
15	447	"Yes," whispered Lady Claudia, speaking not her legal status but her truth.	10
15	450	I wondered if Lady Publia thought her own truth was different.	10
15	488	"In your weakness and need, and love," I said, "in your honesty, and truth, you are a thousand times stronger, and greater, than such caricatures of women, than such travesties of women, than such pseudomales and facsimile men, denying themselves and their feelings, holding themselves rigid, not dar...	10
16	233	There is no escape for her now, no escape from this honesty, this truth.	10
16	385	"But, of course, she would still, in her heart, know the truth, that she was a slave".	10
16	388	"Surely it might be difficult to live with such a hidden truth," I said.	10
16	398	Thus, in this fashion, she could reveal her hidden truth, thereby alleviating her acute mental conflicts, and her sufferings, attendant upon its concealment, and by another, as she has no legal power in the matter herself, be restored to freedom.	10
21	551	She was surely under no delusion, now, as to whether Aemilianus and the others knew the truth.	10
24	213	"The truth is generally known here.	10

Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	893	She may love her brand and collar, and beg them, and rejoice in them, but I do not think this is merely because they make her so exciting, desirable and beautiful; I think it is also, at least, because they proclaim publicly to the world what she is, because by means of them her deepest truth, freei...	10
12	255	Also she soon longs for the openness of bondage, that her inward truth may now be publicly proclaimed, that she may now appear before the world, and be shown before the world, as what she is, a slave.	10
12	261	By the time it is done, of course, many, from behavioral cues, will have already detected, or suspected, the truth.	10
12	343	"And then," I said, "I think it possible that your face might be no longer merely pretty, but, flushed and radiant, tending to express in its way your happiness, your fulfillment, your truth, your awareness that you then occupied, and would continue to occupy, and helplessly, your proper place in na...	10
25	53	"I see that you speak the truth," I said.	10
49	15	Perhaps only those closest to him know the real truth of the matter.	10

Book 25. (21 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	70	What if some folks required lies, as the price of mental security? Should they be nonetheless denied their comforts, robbed of their illusions? Is their happiness worth less than that of others? Is it not better to tell them, if they are capable of no more, that the illusions are reality, that the l...	10
25	609	"If I tell the truth," she said, "it seems I shall displease my master and be beaten, and if I should not tell the truth, it seems I must lie to my master, and then, a lying slave girl, be beaten, or worse!" "You think he is more handsome than I?" I asked.	10
2	328	Love makes a woman a man's slave, and the wholeness of that love requires that she be, in truth, his slave.	10
3	263	"Can it be treason to speak the truth?" inquired a fellow.	10
8	178	He is thus commonly more concerned to express the world, and truth, than himself.	10
8	547	Some ignorantly and sanctimoniously devote themselves to uncriticized abstractions; some strive merely to please their fellows; some, more ambitious, with their eye on power, seek to equal, or even outdo, their peers in lunacy; let civilization be inverted, if only they will then be on top; some, mo...	10
9	813	She is a woman, really, you see, not a man, and not something else, either, also different from a woman, and she will never be fully content until she finds her personal truth, until she becomes, so to speak, what she is.	10
12	405	Perhaps they hate the slave for her beauty, for her joy, her truth, her perfections, her desirability, her happiness.	10
13	161	Naturally the motivation of this, putting aside the standard camouflage of moralistic prose which may be conveniently invoked for any purpose whatsoever, even those most antithetical to nature, health, reason, truth and life, was no concern for slaves but rather a desire to diminish the men of Ar, t...	10
14	642	"I am certain, sooner or later, you will come into the possession of one who will not only accept your slavery, in its beauty, in its tenderness and needfulness, in its honesty and truth, but will celebrate it and relish it, and for whom you will be a treasure, an incredible and marvelous treasure, ...	10
16	285	"Not if you do not know the truth," I said, "but have at your disposal only the propaganda of Cos and the lies of a traitorous government in the Central Cylinder".	10
17	32	A last observation having to do with the tendency of some Goreans to accept illusions and such as reality is that the Gorean tends to take such things as honor and truth very seriously.	10
17	487	What do you expect her to say? To tell the truth, and spoil the show, or perhaps have her master flogged? Do you not think such ill-thought-out intrepidity would swiftly bring her luscious hide into contact with the supple switch?" "Yes," he said.	10
19	556	"I must speak the truth".	10
19	557	"But once before, it seems, earlier, in the matter of how you came to be a slave, you did not speak the truth".	10
19	559	"But it is your intention now to speak the truth?" "Yes, Master!" "Keep the angle between your knees," I said.	10
19	1184	We approve of, and expect, truth from a slave.	10
21	407	In one aspect, however, I fear, and this struck me suddenly, she had revealed a profound, if tragic, truth.	10
22	148	Indeed, it is said, though I do not know with what truth, that Pentilicus Tallux, for whom the great theater is named, first inscribed his poetry on walls.	10
22	305	"When he approaches remember that, and its truth, in your mind, your heart and belly, that you are a slave, and only that".	10
26	452	"Please, Milo," begged the netted beauty, helplessly, pathetically, agonizingly, "do not lie! Tell the truth!" He looked at her.	10

Book 26. (28 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
35	37	Politics is not the arbiter of truth; it may be the arbiter of comfort, safety, conformity, and success, but it is not the arbiter of truth; the arbiter of truth is the world and nature; they have the last say in these matters.	10
7	816	On this world, for better or for worse, order seems most often preferred to chaos, and truth to fiction.	10
8	209	Here I was free to be what I was! Here I might feel, truly feel! Here one need not live as if indoors, sheltered from sunlight and rain, here one might look upon truth as it was in itself, not as it might be distorted in the labyrinths of prescribed protocols, here one might touch real things, like ...	10
9	265	I was a woman from faraway, from a quite different world, a world of banality, glitter and hypocrisy, a world fearful of authenticity and truth, one afraid to understand and feel.	10
10	579	Existence and truth must be postponed yet another day.	10
11	130	Sometimes in the midst of such presentations, in effect, the dance of a woman as a woman, as herself, her true self, so brazen, so forward, so honest, and yet, too, so pathetic, so vulnerable, so needful, and, above all, so totally and unutterably different from a man, I had abruptly wheeled away, w...	10
12	121	Did we really constitute such dangers, I wondered, to the pervasiveness and mightiness of their eccentric conditioning programs? Was it not enough for them to exercise an almost perfect control over media and education? Did they fear a tiny whisper of truth so much? Was it truly so dangerous? Must a...	10
12	122	What a frail straw was truth! So a blade of grass grew between the paving stones, one tiny, green blade of grass among the stones? Did they fear that so much? Grass is so beautiful.	10
12	130	So, too, perhaps even a modest truth, no stranger to eons of history, might undermine the myths of a world.	10
12	131	Did the moons of Jupiter not shatter the crystalline spheres? Destroy telescopes then, for they might see the truth.	10
13	1329	Even in the little I had seen of it I had found myself falling in love with this world, with its honesty, its truth and beauty.	10
13	1335	But here I had learned I must live the truth, and must be true to myself.	10
13	1440	"For speaking the truth?" "The opinion of a slave is worthless," I said.	10
14	173	On this world, this basic truth has been recognized, and, in a portion of the social sphere, institutionalized".	10
14	187	I need not speak the truth to her as she was to me now naught but as slave.	10
14	337	"I am trying to accustom myself to telling the truth".	10
22	45	Is not acquiescence superior to inquiry? Is not cowardice, rather than simple discretion, the better part of valor? Is not conformity to prescribed falsehood less perilous than the seeking of truth? In any event, with respect to the enforcement of commands, customs, and such, the pit master was sele...	10
24	440	The truth or the sword was the choice offered to those hapless prisoners drawn forth from the group and put before the commander.	10
31	139	"He has not spoken the truth to you.	10
31	271	"You have played a clever game of double Kaissa," said the leader of the black-tunicked men, "leading us to believe, as though falsely, this was he whom we seek, when it was in truth he, but the game has been penetrated".	10
35	29	In this book, which is an unusual book, I think, and certainly violates many of the little rules and regulations, in their doctrinaire plenitudes, which so constrict the contemporary theory of the novel, beyond which many seem not to see, I have tried to tell the truth, even truths which may seem to...	10
35	30	Truth is a strange thing.	10
35	32	That one does not like a truth does not make it false.	10
35	39	Truth does not care whether it is believed or not; similarly, stone walls and cliffs do not care whether they are noted or not; so then let us leave it to the individual to do as he thinks best.	10
35	40	Truth, the stone wall, the cliff, are not enemies; but they are real.	10
40	152	"You will never know the beauty, the shining beauty, the truth, I see within you!" she cried.	10
45	25	It is one thing never to acknowledge oneself; it is one thing to pretend and hide; it is one thing to avoid meeting oneself; but it is quite another to forget oneself once one has met oneself; one cannot, so to speak, then unmeet oneself; one may hide from the truth; one may attempt to avoid it; one...	10
45	26	And, too, I loved my sex, my truth.	10

Book 27. (39 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	86	Lastly, she had insisted, in anger and confusion, on fashionable postmodernistic analyses, on the alleged social aspect of, and role of, "truth," as a weapon of ideological warfare, on the right of the scholar activist to alter, conceal, suppress, invent and falsify in order to comply with political...	10
2	90	Did she claim that her theory of truth, that there was no objective truth, was itself objectively true, or not? Again she ignored the question.	10
2	87	He then asked her, if this were her view, if her earlier assertions, and such, had surrendered any possible claim to objective truth, and might be dismissed as mere propaganda.	10
2	89	He then asked her if her general views on truth itself, its alleged subservience to political ends, its relativity, subjectivity, or such, were themselves true, or not.	10
11	327	Falsity and absurdity can be defended, so why not truth and practicality? If certain words are offensive, those particular words need not be used; I prefer them because I like to speak plainly; I prefer 'master' and 'slave' to 'servant of the people' and 'citizen'".	10
11	693	But then she shuddered, for she knew that in truth, in reality, he was her master.	10
11	798	In any event, whatever may be the truth in these matters, she found herself by his will made a young slave, one who could be no more than a girl to his man.	10
12	247	If explicitly questioned, of course, she must, kneeling, head to the floor, tell the truth.	10
12	300	What if what might be best for one was not truly the best for the other? What was best for one, it seems, might depend, really, not on politics and conditioning, not on cultural accidents and the idiosyncrasies of an ephemeral historical situation, but on other things, say, nature, truth, fact, such...	10
12	422	Could she then, so long ago, have been such a slave? Surely not! Forgive me, dear reader! Forgive me, too, Masters! I have been instructed to leave the above passage as it is, for purposes of comparison, but now to speak the truth.	10
12	425	The masters will have the truth of me.	10
13	283	Regardless of the interest or value of such speculations, the truth of which would in any event be veiled in the mysteries and darkness of the past, the fact of the matter was obvious, the fact of the congeniality of such bodies to the convenience of binding and tethering, as obvious as the perfecti...	10
15	343	"On this world the truth may be spoken".	10
15	387	How foreign to her reality would be such a pretense, how irrelevant to fact would be such a silly inward game! It would be a falsification of truth.	10
15	389	Too, how dishonorable to deny truth! How unworthy, as well as stupid, in the face of facts, to lie to oneself! No, she knew she was owned, owned in fact, owned in perfect, clear, indisputable fact.	10
15	411	But it is said that even in such women there eventually comes a moment in their bondage when the emotional cataclysm occurs, when the breakthrough takes place, when the depths of the unconscious open up, when the surgent, rising earthquake of the liberated spirit totters and collapses the fragile, b...	10
18	318	"I trust that my Master, the noble Portus Canio, your employer," said Ellen to Selius Arconious, "does not inquire of me as to your behavior, and if you have been attentive to your duties, for I, as a slave, however reluctantly, knelt down to speak the truth, would have to admit that you have been l...	10
19	641	I have learned that on Gor, and have been taught what it means in its truth, depth and fullness.	10
21	66	It suddenly occurred to her that this might well be the point of the war of the sexes, that it might well be entered into and encouraged by women merely that they might be reassured, much as a naughty child might test limits, that they might have manhood affirmed, and find themselves once more, in t...	10
22	6	Goreans do not eschew emotion; eagerness, zeal, warmth, heat and passion are common with them; they tend to be vehement, hearty, cordial, enthusiastic, ardent, impetuous; they are quick to anger, quick to forget, quick to laugh; they do not pretend to subscribe to obvious falsehoods; they value trut...	10
22	70	She could not, now, never, willingly go back to the emptiness, the disutility, the absurdity, the barrenness, of her former life, with its mockeries of truth, and its spurious freedoms.	10
22	143	Ideology and politics were to take priority over such embarrassments as truth and fact; reality was inconvenient; clearly it had not been formed with orthodoxy in mind; nature denied would, of course, exact her vengeance; causes would continue to have their effects; rationality would be sacrificed, ...	10
22	713	The appearance of their stout securities had been a sham, intended to conceal a fearful truth, that the beasts had never been other than at liberty.	10
23	248	"Perhaps," she said, "you would prefer that I continue to object to my inner truth, that I continue to deny it, and continue to suffer all the torments of denying my innermost being, the very meaning of my sex, my nature?" "I despise you," he said.	10
23	249	"For accepting the truth, for being myself?" she asked.	10
24	613	You have made me like this! Oh, I was always a slave, yes, doubtless, but it was you who forced me to reveal it! You, then, it was who forced me to acknowledge myself, who forced me to show myself as what I truly am! Surely a woman is entitled to this privacy! Surely she is entitled to conceal this ...	10
25	220	"In his eyes I was no more than a tethered beast!" Then she recalled, angrily, that that was all she was, in truth, a beast, an animal, a domestic animal, a small, sleek, exquisite, curvaceous domestic animal, who might be bought and sold.	10
26	364	I must speak the truth.	10
26	1157	Can hunger and unhappiness, sorrow and misery, hatred and pain, illness and tragedy, really be the evidential insignia of health and truth? It does not seem likely.	10
26	1698	"A slave must speak the truth to her master," she said.	10
27	1260	He pointed to the rug, before him and she, scarcely understanding what she was doing, shaking with emotion, trembling with sensations hitherto experienced only in her dreams, those exotic corridors of truth, knelt before him.	10
27	1479	Why was I chosen, and not another? Is there something special about me? Has someone sensed my inner truth? Who, I wonder, so perceptively, recognized me, who saw that I was a slave? She then finds fulfillment, and contentment, at the foot of her master's couch.	10
27	2437	It is the truth.	10
27	2674	"Torture will not obtain the truth for you, only what you want to hear".	10
27	2675	"You do not know the truth?" "None of us do, now," said Portus Canio.	10
27	3464	Sanctions, like pikes, array themselves against truth.	10
30	615	Perhaps it is best for them not to seek the truth.	10
30	616	There is always danger in seeking the truth, the danger that it might be found.	10
30	621	Are there any left upon you now who can think for themselves? Must truth and reason be forever denied; must honesty be always outlawed? How strange it is to hail free speech and then make certain, simultaneously, that it shall not exist.	10

Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
75	67	Does he not know what was done to me before, how my body has been changed? My mind cries 'free woman'! My belly cries 'slave'! How foolish is my mind! How wise my belly! Dear mind, how you desire to dictate to me! Do you still listen only to others, dear mind, and not to me? Why do you not look upon...	10
1	897	It is expected that they will speak the truth.	10
1	898	They do not have the liberty of the free woman to deceive and dissimulate, to conceal the truth, or twist it and deny it, as they please.	10
20	117	The passion for truth, and the seeking of justice, in the Kur heart, is linked more closely with victory than deliberation, with triumph than balloting, with blood than mind.	10
70	162	"Then, if you are telling the truth, and I recover her, in block condition, salable and such, I could return for you".	10
79	57	And untold millions of women fantasize themselves helpless in the chains of masters, fearing the whips of their owners, and millions, as well, are the slaves of their lovers, as they wish to be, though they dare not acknowledge this truth even to the unsuspecting lover.	10

Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	360	"And speak the truth!" "I must speak the truth, Mistress," said Cecily.	10
25	28	I did not know if he spoke truth to me, or if he spoke to me merely what he wished me to take for truth.	10
1	284	They came from the subterranean depths of her, as a quaking, helpless, unexpected eruption of truth from the volcano of her being.	10
2	100	They should be distinguished from claims, or seeming claims, which are noncognitive, namely, which lack either truth or falsity.	10
2	102	The truth or falsity of such things is not hiding.	10
2	106	It, too, is neither truth nor false, but it is dangerous, and it can kill.	10
5	540	"And he wished to know in truth who ruled, and he was told Lurius of Jad, in far Cos, but through Myron, the polemarkos, with the collusion of Seremides, master of the Taurentians, the palace guard.	10
9	363	"The slave must speak the truth.	10
18	177	Whatever the truth may be in these matters the Priest-Kings, as is their wont, did not explain the rationale for their rulings.	10
22	71	"Surely, even in fear, truth may be spoken," I said.	10
22	72	And, I thought, though I did not bring this to the attention of Pertinax, a slave who is frightened is often afraid not to speak the truth.	10
22	73	The Master may know the truth, and be examining her.	10
22	447	Or do they know themselves slaves, lacking only a master? How, I thought, might a civilization distort and pervert truth! How it can veil nature and conceal reality! How it can demean one thing and bedeck another, how it can in so many ways flee the serious, mighty, and worthy, and embrace the insig...	10
25	11	I did not care for the veils with which reality so frequently chose to clothe herself, nor for the thousand mirrors, with their ten thousand reflections and images, each claiming that the truth is here, the ten thousand reflections and images, mirages, betraying belief and hope.	10
25	22	I supposed it was well that I had learned what I had, but truth can draw blood.	10
26	90	Too, if the fellow aflight with me spoke the truth, they might both, mount and rider, before morning, return to the cots.	10

Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	497	It was clearly the voice of one of the master sex addressing one of the slave sex, bluntly, directly, intending to be told the truth.	10
12	508	This is a moment of truth, of understanding and insight, of submission, which few women in a collar ever forget.	10
12	524	I know nothing, nothing, Masters! That is the truth, Masters! Be merciful to a slave! She is collared, she dares not lie, Masters!" I looked to the tarnsman.	10
12	673	Truth, primitive and antique, remains true.	10
15	176	It is the truth of nature.	10
15	202	The entire mien of the slave, behaviorally and verbally, is to make clear to herself and others her truth, that she is only a slave.	10
28	248	"Whatever might be the truth in these matters," she said, "for those of us who are slaves, and know we are slaves, and would be slaves, and are complete only at the feet of men, do not be cruel, do not begrudge us our collars!" "You would be owned?" "Wholly, and helplessly!" I regarded her, not spea...	10
34	116	"And in your feeling," I said, "is found the truth".	10
37	257	"I am different! I am now in a collar! I am only a collared slave, and yours, my master! I am contrite! I am penitent! I have learned softness, deference, humility, vulnerability, giving, truth, honesty, kindness, caring, service, awareness of others!" She looked up at him.	10
37	1137	One gathered they somehow supposed that nature was a mistake, the foe of happiness, rather than its foundation and truth.	10

Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	55	"I have no idea," I said, though, in truth, I had an idea of such matters.	10
4	622	Rawlinson that those in collars must tell the truth.	10
6	4	"I have no idea," I had said, though, in truth, I had an idea of such matters.	10
7	257	Whatever may be the truth in such matters, my skills proceeded apace.	10
8	1060	One thing that I learned of your world, which struck me as of much interest, is your preference for honesty, or truth, or your dislike of fraud, or what you think of as fraud.	10
8	1069	On your world, honesty, truth, and such, are obviously of great moment.	10
8	1976	I was much afraid, to lie, or to tell the truth.	10
8	1977	"I must tell the truth?" I asked.	10
8	2004	"Under torture," said Astrinax, "one speaks not to say the truth, but to say whatever will stop the pain".	10
10	118	Was he telling the truth? The mien of the beast, the size, the fangs, the eyes, set forward in the head, suggested the carnivore.	10
10	808	I must speak the truth, for I wear a collar.	10
27	114	In any event, whatever may be the truth in these matters, the decor and structure of the vast "Cave" was not uniform, and, from the human point of view, certain areas were more pleasant than others.	10
35	26	As noted before, the theory is that the slave may be expected to tell the truth only under duress.	10
38	34	"Slaves can speak the truth, without the assistance of torture".	10
49	27	The truth of the matter doubtless lies on a distant steel world, in some archive of experiments.	10
52	239	"If you are telling the truth," he said.	10

Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
52	783	You should have been left to pine and languish in your shallow, tepid world, left, if anything, to the timid, polite, fumbling attentions of psychologically emasculated pseudomales, conditioned from infancy to disown their own nature, and deny their own blood, the creatures of a pathological world w...	10
3	18	Who are the social engineers? Who appoints them? What shall be engineered? Who reviews their work? Need anything be engineered? Why should anything be engineered? Who will engineer a flower, or truth? Whose fingers draw the secret strings? How gross, narrow, and transparently self-serving, are so ma...	10
11	101	How estranged from nature it was! Was nature so fearful that it must be denied, and betrayed? In whose interest was this treason? Was the biography of a world so terrible that gates must be barred against it? Were there not green fields, bracing winds, and a warm sun outside the gates? You can burn ...	10
11	102	Who is accountable for the tragic routes leading to misery and want, to unhappiness and deprivation? Whence the monstrous distortions which would turn an animal against itself, and teach it to suspect, repudiate, and lacerate its own being? Who spoke to their own advantage, and proclaimed as truths ...	10
14	399	"Or truth," he said.	10
40	38	She often strives to perpetrate an externally imposed stereotype rather than acknowledge a reality, often preferring to ignore nature in favor of convention and artifice, often preferring lies to truth, slogans to history, cliches to biology, and ideologies to blood.	10
43	325	"And only a fool or weakling ignores right and truth, regardless of by whom it is spoken," said Genserich.	10
43	906	"We are officers from the camp of the great ship, of which you have heard," said Axel, taking some liberties with the truth.	10
48	27	Here it was so not only in the aching, longing reality of the heart, desiring to belong to and serve a master, but in the full, implacable reality of fact, truth, and law.	10
49	192	"A slave," she said, "must tell the truth".	10

Book 33. (6 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	475	Had I detected a thrill of submission in those simple words? Had the radical sexual dimorphism of the human species suddenly become real to her? Did she understand it at last? Did she sense the possible fulfillments, and liberation, of the collar, the joy of a sensed, unalloyed, apprehended truth, a...	10
6	100	Rather than form a party to conspiracy and rebellion I then chose, as an honorable man, at great personal risk, and with profound sorrow at parting from my friends, to abandon your misguided secession from right and truth".	10
12	217	"They cannot lie, but, as they cannot speak, neither can they tell the truth".	10
12	245	"The overlap of the readings, of course," said Daichi, "proves the probity of both readings, which would be inexplicable other than on the grounds of truth and fact".	10
13	454	Perhaps he feared some pebble of truth might lie concealed within the mountain of myth.	10
24	75	"But one in power must weigh diverse quantities; it is with delicacy that scales are to be balanced; one must proportion right with prudence, truth with utility, appropriate desserts with judicious policy.	10

Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	68	Is it not the case that the lie heard many times comes to wear the mask of truth? And how dangerous it is to speak truth in a world of lies! I slipped the folder into the drawer of the filing cabinet and thrust shut the door.	10
1	239	What could possibly be so disturbing about the mere thought of apprising oneself of unfamiliar possibilities? Can ideas draw blood? Surely truth is unavailing against mighty walls.	10
2	129	"Alas," she said, "that the world is such, that need, and wanting, and honesty, and truth must be concealed".	10
8	275	In any event, Goreans, male and female, slave and free, by whatever glimpse of wisdom and truth, or by whatever stroke of fortune, have never been taught to suspect themselves of some shameful unworthiness for the crime of being alive and human.	10
9	641	I had discovered myself, and was not discontent, but was overwhelmed with a sense of truth and joy, and, oddly perhaps, with liberation.	10
10	327	Escape was impossible, the culture saw to that, but, too, I realized, a thought that would once have startled me, and the truth of which I would have felt obliged to protest fiercely, I did not want to escape.	10
42	193	What is your purpose?" "I have spoken the truth, Mistress," I said.	10
43	31	"I suspect," he said, "you may have told the truth".	10
46	140	With it I am myself; without it, there would be only the truth of the mirror, that of the beast".	10
50	50	Truth can be denied only so long.	10
51	213	If he does not, then you will know I speak the truth.	10
61	351	In that laugh was bespoken the truth that there were two sexes, and that one sex was the fit property of the other.	10

Book 35. (21 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	398	Do not herds, and ilks, bond so, and thus reassure one another? Truth, I suspect, is complex and obscure; ideology, on the other hand, is simple and clear; it is thus not surprising, I suppose, that it might be frequently preferred to truth.	10
1	95	One is torn between convention, armed and aggressive, and socially coercive, and truth, between formulas and words and one's heart and blood.	10
11	325	Had I not been taught it? Why then had I not felt it, and thought it? How effective can it be, to lie to nature? What can be the test of truth, if not its consequences? I had retired one fall night on my former world, thinking of nothing, aware of nothing.	10
22	157	"When one wishes the truth from a woman," said the Lady Dorna, "you should put her on her knees.	10
22	158	It is hard for a woman on her knees not to tell the truth".	10
22	160	"You are going to tell us the truth," said the Lady Dorna.	10
22	166	"You are going to tell the truth, are you not?" she asked.	10
24	228	Why would the Lady Dorna, a free woman, want to have an innocent slave cast to tharlarion? Was she angry that I had not revealed secrets to her, that Adraste was the former Lady Julia Leta, scion of a minor banking family, the Claudian Marcelliani, their house on Ar's Street of Coins? And why was it...	10
34	24	"You revealed what you took to be the truth," he said, "as it was intended you would, should the circumstances arise".	10
35	189	How painful can be its comings and goings, its games, tricks, and jests! And how can one distinguish between an authentic memory and a seeming memory? Falsity would not be falsity did it not hide under the claim of truth.	10
39	116	I recalled that a woman was supposedly more likely to tell the truth when she was on her knees.	10
40	106	She has been interrogated by means of the cloth of fire and the fumes of truth".	10
40	312	How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w...	10
40	345	I recalled my ordeal with the tunic of fire and the fumes of truth.	10
40	358	The tunic of fire and the fumes of truth could not be resisted.	10
40	367	I myself had undergone the ordeal of the tunic of fire and the fumes of truth, in much the same way as had Dorna.	10
40	368	Dorna, then, and her confederates, would be well aware that the tunic of fire and the fumes of truth could not be resisted.	10
40	370	But what had I revealed, only what I had been told, only what I took to be the truth.	10
41	193	It was Addison Steele! Why was I startled? Was it not to be expected? Was he not a minion of Pa-Kur? Had he not been present, in the retinue of Pa-Kur, at the interview with the metal monster in the marshes? Had he not been present in the apartment of Dorna the Proud, an ally of Pa-Kur, when I had b...	10
46	268	"The girl spoke the truth.	10
46	554	If I was a slave, why should I not be as a slave? Why should the essence of my being be denied, or disguised? Is honesty so fearful? Is truth so terrible? No longer was I ashamed, for I wanted my slavery and loved my slavery.	10

Book 36. (8 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	16	One who speaks freely, unthreatened, of his own will, with no obvious motivation to lie, is more likely to tell the truth, even in its miserable plenty, than one intimidated, or one seeking profit by means of its distortion or concealment.	10
2	145	How might one separate idle rumor from sober truth; how might one tell fact from fable, fear, and fancy? This had much to do with the technology laws of the Priest-Kings, who, it seemed, recognized the danger, both to themselves and other forms of life, of sharing a planet with human beings, bellige...	10
6	357	Such behaviors impress the truth of her being on her.	10
10	54	"On the other hand," I said, "I gather that, in your case, the mark and collar, and such, was no more than a suitable, public acknowledgement of a hitherto concealed inward truth, that you are a natural slave, a rightful slave, a woman who is a slave, and wants to be a slave".	10
11	116	It is interesting, I thought, how the truth may be told in such a way that it will be taken as a lie.	10
17	129	But, then, later, there comes the profound, liberating moment in which one realizes that one is now, in truth, and wholly, a slave.	10
36	37	One can deny an obvious truth only so long.	10
60	151	Uninvited, unauthorized, you seek truth, an enterprise often fraught with peril.	10