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Or do they know themselves slaves, lacking only a master? How, I thought, might a civilization distort and pervert truth! How it can veil nature and conceal reality! How it can demean one thing and bedeck another, how it can in so many ways flee the serious, mighty, and worthy, and embrace the insignificant, the pathetic, the absurd, and ignoble. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 22, Sentence #447)

Had White known this, might he not have conjectured seizing her from behind, holding her helplessly before him, and whispering in her startled ear, "Slave". And so her slavery had been concealed, even from herself. How many women, I wondered, even aside from acquisition lists, and such, are slaves, and do not know they are slaves. Or do they know themselves slaves, lacking only a master? How, I thought, might a civilization distort and pervert truth! How it can veil nature and conceal reality! How it can demean one thing and bedeck another, how it can in so many ways flee the serious, mighty, and worthy, and embrace the insignificant, the pathetic, the absurd, and ignoble. How it can lie, say, about men, and about women. They are not the same. She had, as far as I knew, encountered no free women since coming to the northern forests. - (Swordsmen of Gor)