Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 222 | View more quotes about accordingly">Accordingly, each member of each caste is likely to have his caste pride. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 219 | It was sometimes said that the power of Marlenus, the Ubar himself, rested ultimately on the lower castes, whom he cultivated and flattered. |
| 8 | 220 | Is it not, ultimately, in the mass that the power lies? Who else, at a word, might swarm into the streets, armed with paving stones and clubs? Woe to the former free Gorean woman of high caste who, enslaved, might fall into the power of her hitherto despised "inferiors". |
| 8 | 221 | Each Gorean caste, interestingly, regards itself as equal to, or superior to, all other castes. |
| 8 | 222 | Accordingly, each member of each caste is likely to have his caste pride. |
| 8 | 223 | In some sense this doubtless contributes to social stability, and, surely, it tends to make the average fellow content with his own person, profession, background, antecedents, and such. |
| 8 | 224 | He respects himself, and these things. |
| 8 | 225 | Even the Peasants, commonly regarded as the lowest of castes, regards itself proudly, and with justification, as "the ox on which the Home Stone rests". |
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It was sometimes said that the power of Marlenus, the Ubar himself, rested ultimately on the lower castes, whom he cultivated and flattered.
Is it not, ultimately, in the mass that the power lies? Who else, at a word, might swarm into the streets, armed with paving stones and clubs? Woe to the former free Gorean woman of high caste who, enslaved, might fall into the power of her hitherto despised "inferiors".
Each Gorean caste, interestingly, regards itself as equal to, or superior to, all other castes.
Accordingly, each member of each caste is likely to have his caste pride.
In some sense this doubtless contributes to social stability, and, surely, it tends to make the average fellow content with his own person, profession, background, antecedents, and such.
He respects himself, and these things.
Even the Peasants, commonly regarded as the lowest of castes, regards itself proudly, and with justification, as "the ox on which the Home Stone rests".
- (Conspirators of Gor)