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Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)

Many people take the values of their culture for granted, as though they were somehow a part of the furniture of the universe. - (Explorers of Gor, Chapter 34, Sentence #661)
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34 661 Many View more quotes about people">people take the values of their culture for granted, as though they were somehow a part of the furniture of the universe.

Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)

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34 658 She was quite good.
34 659 The needs of human beings are a matter of biology.
34 660 The values in a culture are the values of certain men.
34 661 Many people take the values of their culture for granted, as though they were somehow a part of the furniture of the universe.
34 662 They should realize that the values they are taught are the values of particular men, and often, unfortunately, of men who, long ago, were short-lived, ignorant, uninformed, unhealthy, and quite possibly of unsound mind.
34 663 Perhaps human beings should, from the viewpoints of contemporary information and modern medicine, re-evaluate these perhaps anachronistic value structures.
34 664 Values need not be something one somehow mysteriously "knows," a result of having forgotten the conditioning process by means of which they were instilled, but could be something chosen, something selected as instruments by means of which to improve human life.
She was quite good. The needs of human beings are a matter of biology. The values in a culture are the values of certain men. Many people take the values of their culture for granted, as though they were somehow a part of the furniture of the universe. They should realize that the values they are taught are the values of particular men, and often, unfortunately, of men who, long ago, were short-lived, ignorant, uninformed, unhealthy, and quite possibly of unsound mind. Perhaps human beings should, from the viewpoints of contemporary information and modern medicine, re-evaluate these perhaps anachronistic value structures. Values need not be something one somehow mysteriously "knows," a result of having forgotten the conditioning process by means of which they were instilled, but could be something chosen, something selected as instruments by means of which to improve human life. - (Explorers of Gor)