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"But I, Marlenus, though a warrior, was more than a warrior, always more than a warrior. - (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 14, Sentence #33)

"I risked my life a thousand times and gave the years of my youth to the vision of Ar and its empire, that there might be on all Gor but one language, but one commerce, but one set of codes, that the highways and passes might be safe, that the peasants might cultivate their fields in peace, that there might be but one Council to decide matters of policy, that there might be but one supreme city to unite the cylinders of a hundred severed, hostile cities—and all this you have destroyed". Marlenus looked down at me. "What can you, a simple tarnsman, know of these things?" he asked. "But I, Marlenus, though a warrior, was more than a warrior, always more than a warrior. Where others could see no more than the codes of their castes, where others could sense no call of duty beyond that of their Home Stone, I dared to dream the dream of Ar—that there might be an end to meaningless warfare, bloodshed, and terror, an end to the anxiety and peril, the retribution and cruelty that cloud our lives—I dreamed that there might arise from the ashes of the conquests of Ar a new world, a world of honor and law, of power and justice". "Your justice," I said. "Mine, if you like," he agreed. - (Tarnsman of Gor)