Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 685 | Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword. |
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 682 | More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions. |
| 8 | 683 | A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently. |
| 8 | 684 | A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration. |
| 8 | 685 | Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword. |
| 8 | 686 | It might be added, incidentally, that Phoebe, herself a slave, in moral consistency, fully accepted this same principle, at least intellectually, in her own case. |
| 8 | 687 | She accepted, in short, as morally indisputable, the rightfulness of herself being punished if she should fail to be pleasing. |
| 8 | 688 | Also, accepting this principle, and knowing the strength and resolve of her master, and the uncompromising reality of the discipline under which she herself was held, she was naturally disinclined to see others escape sanctions and penalties to which she herself was subject. |
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More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions.
A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently.
A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration.
Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword.
It might be added, incidentally, that Phoebe, herself a slave, in moral consistency, fully accepted this same principle, at least intellectually, in her own case.
She accepted, in short, as morally indisputable, the rightfulness of herself being punished if she should fail to be pleasing.
Also, accepting this principle, and knowing the strength and resolve of her master, and the uncompromising reality of the discipline under which she herself was held, she was naturally disinclined to see others escape sanctions and penalties to which she herself was subject.
- (Magicians of Gor, Chapter 8)