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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Individual Quote)

Most Goreans are quite content with their castes; this is probably a function of caste pride. - (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #51)
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16 51 Most Goreans are quite content with their castes; this is probably a function of caste pride.

Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor (Context Quote)

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16 48 The leather worker, accordingly, does not spend much time envying the metal worker, or the metal worker the leather worker, or either the cloth worker, and so on.
16 49 All need sandals and wallets, and clothes, and metal tools.
16 50 Each does, however, tend to think of his own caste as something special, and, somehow, I suspect, as being perhaps a little bit preferable to the others.
16 51 Most Goreans are quite content with their castes; this is probably a function of caste pride.
16 52 I have little doubt but what the caste structure contributes considerably to the stability of Gorean society.
16 53 Among other things it reduces competitive chaos, social and economic, and prevents the draining of intelligence and ambition into a small number of envied, prestigious occupations.
16 54 If one may judge by the outcome of Kaissa tournaments, amateur tournaments as opposed to those in which members of the caste of Players participate, there are brilliant men in most castes.
The leather worker, accordingly, does not spend much time envying the metal worker, or the metal worker the leather worker, or either the cloth worker, and so on. All need sandals and wallets, and clothes, and metal tools. Each does, however, tend to think of his own caste as something special, and, somehow, I suspect, as being perhaps a little bit preferable to the others. Most Goreans are quite content with their castes; this is probably a function of caste pride. I have little doubt but what the caste structure contributes considerably to the stability of Gorean society. Among other things it reduces competitive chaos, social and economic, and prevents the draining of intelligence and ambition into a small number of envied, prestigious occupations. If one may judge by the outcome of Kaissa tournaments, amateur tournaments as opposed to those in which members of the caste of Players participate, there are brilliant men in most castes. - (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 16)