Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 399 | This, like the rotation of police powers among warrior societies, is a portion of the checks and balances, so to speak, which tend to characterize tribal governance. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 396 | Among the red savages there are various sorts of chief. |
| 1 | 397 | The primary types of chief are the war chief, the medicine chief and the civil chief. |
| 1 | 398 | One may be, interestingly, only one sort of chief at a time. |
| 1 | 399 | This, like the rotation of police powers among warrior societies, is a portion of the checks and balances, so to speak, which tend to characterize tribal governance. |
| 1 | 400 | Other checks and balances are such things as tradition and custom, the closeness of the governed and the governors, multiple-family interrelatednesses, the election of chiefs, the submission of significant matters to a council, and, ultimately, the feasibility of simply leaving the group, in greater or lesser numbers. |
| 1 | 401 | Despotism, then, in virtue of the institutions of the red savages, is impractical for them; this impracticality is a much surer guarantee of its absence in a society than the most fervid of negative rhetorics. |
| 1 | 402 | "Go," ordered Hci. |
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Among the red savages there are various sorts of chief.
The primary types of chief are the war chief, the medicine chief and the civil chief.
One may be, interestingly, only one sort of chief at a time.
This, like the rotation of police powers among warrior societies, is a portion of the checks and balances, so to speak, which tend to characterize tribal governance.
Other checks and balances are such things as tradition and custom, the closeness of the governed and the governors, multiple-family interrelatednesses, the election of chiefs, the submission of significant matters to a council, and, ultimately, the feasibility of simply leaving the group, in greater or lesser numbers.
Despotism, then, in virtue of the institutions of the red savages, is impractical for them; this impracticality is a much surer guarantee of its absence in a society than the most fervid of negative rhetorics.
"Go," ordered Hci.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter 1)