Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 24 | 478 | The test for truth, View more quotes about surely">surely, must not be pain, misery and frustration, but happiness and joy. |
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 24 | 475 | Surely she must be a free woman! She must be free! She was from Earth! But could everything that my blood, my instincts and impulses told me be wrong? But it must be, else a civilization structured upon, and predicated upon, pathologies must disintegrate and perish. |
| 24 | 476 | But could there not be a civilization congenial to the truths of the blood, to the nature of human beings. |
| 24 | 477 | Is man so foolish, so naive and habit-bound, so fundamentally irrational, so ready to believe anything that he might be taught, no matter how absurd, that he cannot understand that torture cannot be truth. |
| 24 | 478 | The test for truth, surely, must not be pain, misery and frustration, but happiness and joy. |
| 24 | 479 | "Master," she whimpered. |
| 24 | 480 | But surely she must be free! But what if she were a true slave, as she had indicated? But she could not be a true slave. |
| 24 | 481 | She was from Earth! But what if, even though she were from Earth, she were a true slave, as in accord with her own avowals? Could such a thing, she from Earth, be possible, even thinkable? I scarcely dared even consider this possibility, for then she, a slave, could be mine! I determined, cruelly, to make test of the matter. |
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Surely she must be a free woman! She must be free! She was from Earth! But could everything that my blood, my instincts and impulses told me be wrong? But it must be, else a civilization structured upon, and predicated upon, pathologies must disintegrate and perish.
But could there not be a civilization congenial to the truths of the blood, to the nature of human beings.
Is man so foolish, so naive and habit-bound, so fundamentally irrational, so ready to believe anything that he might be taught, no matter how absurd, that he cannot understand that torture cannot be truth.
The test for truth, surely, must not be pain, misery and frustration, but happiness and joy.
"Master," she whimpered.
But surely she must be free! But what if she were a true slave, as she had indicated? But she could not be a true slave.
She was from Earth! But what if, even though she were from Earth, she were a true slave, as in accord with her own avowals? Could such a thing, she from Earth, be possible, even thinkable? I scarcely dared even consider this possibility, for then she, a slave, could be mine! I determined, cruelly, to make test of the matter.
- (Rogue of Gor)