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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
9 61 I, too, was of Port Kar.
9 62 I had learned that beneath the hide of men burned the hearts of sleen and tharlarion, and that their moralities and ideals were so many cloaks to conceal the claw and the tooth.
9 63 Greed and selfishness I now, for the first time, understood.
9 64 There is more honesty in Port Kar, I thought, than in all the cities of Gor.
9 65 Here men scorn to sheath the claws of their heart in the pretenses of their mouth.
9 66 Here, in this city, alone of all the cities of Gor, men did not stoop to cant and prattle.
9 67 Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons.
I, too, was of Port Kar. I had learned that beneath the hide of men burned the hearts of sleen and tharlarion, and that their moralities and ideals were so many cloaks to conceal the claw and the tooth. Greed and selfishness I now, for the first time, understood. There is more honesty in Port Kar, I thought, than in all the cities of Gor. Here men scorn to sheath the claws of their heart in the pretenses of their mouth. Here, in this city, alone of all the cities of Gor, men did not stoop to cant and prattle. Here they knew, and would acknowledge, the dark truths of human life, that, in the end, there was only gold, and power, and the bodies of women, and the steel of weapons. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )