Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 27 | 40 | Even brigands have no use for them, View more quotes about unless">unless it be to sell them, or use them as feed for sleen. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 27 | 37 | They see no point to sheltering and sustaining those who can work and do not do so. |
| 27 | 38 | They are commonly sold to quarry gangs, harbor dredgers, laborers in the latifundia, the great farms, and such. |
| 27 | 39 | Sometimes they are simply put outside the walls, naked, for beasts, human or otherwise. |
| 27 | 40 | Even brigands have no use for them, unless it be to sell them, or use them as feed for sleen. |
| 27 | 41 | But there are few such cases, for it is part of the Gorean ethos that one, if able, should work. |
| 27 | 42 | And the capacity for work is determined by physicians, neither by politics nor rhetorics. |
| 27 | 43 | Perhaps if the caste and council democracies, so to speak, had taken a different turn such individuals might have constituted a constituency, so to speak, exploitable by the unscrupulous, but the several forms of democracy, of aristocracies, of oligarchies, of tyrannies, and such, amongst which power tended to be divided, had not taken such a turn. |
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They see no point to sheltering and sustaining those who can work and do not do so.
They are commonly sold to quarry gangs, harbor dredgers, laborers in the latifundia, the great farms, and such.
Sometimes they are simply put outside the walls, naked, for beasts, human or otherwise.
Even brigands have no use for them, unless it be to sell them, or use them as feed for sleen.
But there are few such cases, for it is part of the Gorean ethos that one, if able, should work.
And the capacity for work is determined by physicians, neither by politics nor rhetorics.
Perhaps if the caste and council democracies, so to speak, had taken a different turn such individuals might have constituted a constituency, so to speak, exploitable by the unscrupulous, but the several forms of democracy, of aristocracies, of oligarchies, of tyrannies, and such, amongst which power tended to be divided, had not taken such a turn.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)