Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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Sentence #
Quote
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.
17
103
He cannot be easy with the men, of course, for he himself is subject to the sanctions of his superiors, in particular in connection with the salt quotas imposed upon his kennel.
17
104
Men do not wish to be kennel master.
17
105
But yet one must be sovereign; one must accept the burden.
17
106
It is steel alone, and will, which prevents catastrophe and slaughter.
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.
He cannot be easy with the men, of course, for he himself is subject to the sanctions of his superiors, in particular in connection with the salt quotas imposed upon his kennel.
Men do not wish to be kennel master.
But yet one must be sovereign; one must accept the burden.
It is steel alone, and will, which prevents catastrophe and slaughter.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )