Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 710 | It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions. |
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Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 707 | If I had known he was of high caste I might have been a great deal more frightened than I was. |
| 11 | 708 | Most Goreans take caste very seriously. |
| 11 | 709 | It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor. |
| 11 | 710 | It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions. |
| 11 | 711 | The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization. |
| 11 | 712 | Provisions for changing caste exist on Gor, but they are seldom utilized. |
| 11 | 713 | Most Goreans are proud of their castes and the skills appropriate to them. |
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If I had known he was of high caste I might have been a great deal more frightened than I was.
Most Goreans take caste very seriously.
It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor.
It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions.
The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization.
Provisions for changing caste exist on Gor, but they are seldom utilized.
Most Goreans are proud of their castes and the skills appropriate to them.
- (Dancer of Gor, Chapter 11)