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

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
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.
9 68 Here they concerned themselves only with themselves.
9 69 Here they behaved as what they were, cruelly and with ruthlessness, as men, despising, and taking what they might, should it please them to do so.
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. Here they concerned themselves only with themselves. Here they behaved as what they were, cruelly and with ruthlessness, as men, despising, and taking what they might, should it please them to do so. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )