Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 18 | "I View more quotes about think">think," said Pertinax, "we have been betrayed not so much by others as by ourselves, by greed". |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 15 | "Are we ourselves so innocent?" asked Pertinax. |
| 9 | 16 | "Are we not, ourselves, in our way, guilty of betrayal? Did we not engage, enthusiastically and uncritically, in betrayal, pretending to be what we were not, engaging to deliver a stranger, whom we knew not, to an uncertain fate, one we did not understand, and which might, for all we knew, have proven fatal?" In a sense, I thought, their betrayal was deeper than they understood, for they had labored, however ignorantly, in the cause of beasts, Kurii, who would covet not only Gor, but Earth, as well. |
| 9 | 17 | In a sense they had betrayed a world, and a species. |
| 9 | 18 | "I think," said Pertinax, "we have been betrayed not so much by others as by ourselves, by greed". |
| 9 | 19 | "Absurd!" snapped Miss Wentworth. |
| 9 | 20 | "You would do anything for money," said Pertinax. |
| 9 | 21 | "So, too, would anyone!" she said. |
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"Are we ourselves so innocent?" asked Pertinax.
"Are we not, ourselves, in our way, guilty of betrayal? Did we not engage, enthusiastically and uncritically, in betrayal, pretending to be what we were not, engaging to deliver a stranger, whom we knew not, to an uncertain fate, one we did not understand, and which might, for all we knew, have proven fatal?" In a sense, I thought, their betrayal was deeper than they understood, for they had labored, however ignorantly, in the cause of beasts, Kurii, who would covet not only Gor, but Earth, as well.
In a sense they had betrayed a world, and a species.
"I think," said Pertinax, "we have been betrayed not so much by others as by ourselves, by greed".
"Absurd!" snapped Miss Wentworth.
"You would do anything for money," said Pertinax.
"So, too, would anyone!" she said.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)