Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 399 | "Perhaps there are no such things as duties, and rights," she said, "perhaps there are only the words, used as the instruments of manipulative rhetorics, devices of conditioning, cheaper and more subtle than guns and whips". |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 396 | Men have not only a right to preserve their manhood, but a duty to do so". |
| 17 | 397 | "Perhaps there is no such thing as manhood," she whispered, "or womanhood". |
| 17 | 398 | "Tell that," I said, "to strong men and yielding women, and history". |
| 17 | 399 | "Perhaps there are no such things as duties, and rights," she said, "perhaps there are only the words, used as the instruments of manipulative rhetorics, devices of conditioning, cheaper and more subtle than guns and whips". |
| 17 | 400 | "That is an interesting and profound possibility," I said, "but then there would still remain needs and powers, forces and desires, and the facts of the world, that certain courses of action lead to certain results, and that other courses of action lead to other results. |
| 17 | 401 | And in such a world who will argue with the larl as to whether or not it should feed, or with a man as to whether or not he should be a man? In such a world the larl hunts, and the man is a man". |
| 17 | 402 | "Gor, I fear," she said, "is such a world". |
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Men have not only a right to preserve their manhood, but a duty to do so".
"Perhaps there is no such thing as manhood," she whispered, "or womanhood".
"Tell that," I said, "to strong men and yielding women, and history".
"Perhaps there are no such things as duties, and rights," she said, "perhaps there are only the words, used as the instruments of manipulative rhetorics, devices of conditioning, cheaper and more subtle than guns and whips".
"That is an interesting and profound possibility," I said, "but then there would still remain needs and powers, forces and desires, and the facts of the world, that certain courses of action lead to certain results, and that other courses of action lead to other results.
And in such a world who will argue with the larl as to whether or not it should feed, or with a man as to whether or not he should be a man? In such a world the larl hunts, and the man is a man".
"Gor, I fear," she said, "is such a world".
- (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter 17)