Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 14 | The object—the egg—might be destroyed before it could be delivered to them. |
| 2 | 15 | It might already have been destroyed. |
| 2 | 16 | Only that the egg was the egg of priest-kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life. |
| 2 | 17 | And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of priest-kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of priest-kings that so limited their development, their technology? Once I had spoken to a priest-King of these things. |
| 2 | 18 | He had said to me, "Man is a larl to man; if we permitted him, he would be so to priest-kings as well". |
| 2 | 19 | "But man must be free," I had said. |
| 2 | 20 | "Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational". |
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The object—the egg—might be destroyed before it could be delivered to them.
It might already have been destroyed.
Only that the egg was the egg of priest-kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life.
And if I should find the object—why should I not myself destroy it, and destroy thereby the race of priest-kings, giving this world to my own kind, to men, to do with as they pleased, unrestricted by the laws and decrees of priest-kings that so limited their development, their technology? Once I had spoken to a priest-King of these things.
He had said to me, "Man is a larl to man; if we permitted him, he would be so to priest-kings as well".
"But man must be free," I had said.
"Freedom without reason is suicide," had said the priest-King, adding, "Man is not yet rational".
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )