Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
17
96
Too, he would be the next to die.
17
97
It is a high price to pay for the whip.
17
98
One must think carefully before slaying a kennel master, for the reasons for which one performs this action, if sufficient to justify his slaying, must, too, be sufficient to justify the slaying of his successor.
17
99
There are two major controls on the office of kennel master, one on the men, the other on the master.
17
100
The control on the men is that the killer of the kennel master must assume the office of his victim, with its vulnerabilities and hazards.
17
101
The control on the kennel master is the incipient rage and menace of his desperate charges.
17
102
If he does not govern shrewdly and well, if he does not do rough justice, he invites the lesions of resentment, which among the grim, trapped men of Klima must, sooner or later, culminate in the moment of insurrection.
Too, he would be the next to die.
It is a high price to pay for the whip.
One must think carefully before slaying a kennel master, for the reasons for which one performs this action, if sufficient to justify his slaying, must, too, be sufficient to justify the slaying of his successor.
There are two major controls on the office of kennel master, one on the men, the other on the master.
The control on the men is that the killer of the kennel master must assume the office of his victim, with its vulnerabilities and hazards.
The control on the kennel master is the incipient rage and menace of his desperate charges.
If he does not govern shrewdly and well, if he does not do rough justice, he invites the lesions of resentment, which among the grim, trapped men of Klima must, sooner or later, culminate in the moment of insurrection.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )