Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 683 | A civilization View more quotes about must">must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently. |
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 680 | The girl was a slave, and had not been pleasing. |
| 8 | 681 | Thus it was appropriate, even imperative, that she be punished. |
| 8 | 682 | More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions. |
| 8 | 683 | A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently. |
| 8 | 684 | A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration. |
| 8 | 685 | Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword. |
| 8 | 686 | It might be added, incidentally, that Phoebe, herself a slave, in moral consistency, fully accepted this same principle, at least intellectually, in her own case. |
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The girl was a slave, and had not been pleasing.
Thus it was appropriate, even imperative, that she be punished.
More broadly, order and structure in human life, stability in society, even, in a sense, civilization itself, depends upon sanctions.
A civilization must be willing to impose sanctions, and to impose them reliably and efficiently.
A lapse in such resolve and practice is a symptom of decline, even of impending disintegration.
Ultimately civilization depends upon power, moral and physical, upon, so to speak, the will of masters and the reality of the whip and sword.
It might be added, incidentally, that Phoebe, herself a slave, in moral consistency, fully accepted this same principle, at least intellectually, in her own case.
- (Magicians of Gor)