Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 20 | How many oppressions have been enforced, heresies persecuted, beliefs proscribed, truths denied, absurdities proclaimed! View more quotes about behind">Behind the glistening veils may crouch an unnatural beast. |
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 17 | There are many things I have never understood, and how ignorant and stupid seem the ideologues, the tyrants, and fools, who see complexity in terms of conditioned, programmed simplicities. |
| 3 | 18 | Who are the social engineers? Who appoints them? What shall be engineered? Who reviews their work? Need anything be engineered? Why should anything be engineered? Who will engineer a flower, or truth? Whose fingers draw the secret strings? How gross, narrow, and transparently self-serving, are so many manufactured values, principles, and injunctions. |
| 3 | 19 | What are the credentials of a dictatorship which would review thought, circumscribe belief, and capture the coercive powers of a state in order to protect and propagate a favored orthodoxy? Yet, to be sure, such crimes are muchly precedent in the history of a world; they are perennially familiar to the troubled biography of a species. |
| 3 | 20 | How many oppressions have been enforced, heresies persecuted, beliefs proscribed, truths denied, absurdities proclaimed! Behind the glistening veils may crouch an unnatural beast. |
| 3 | 21 | How naive I am, how unpolitical I am. |
| 3 | 22 | Why does the chain lure me? Why does the sight of the whip, and the knowledge that it may be used upon me, thrill me? I wonder if my feelings are unique. |
| 3 | 23 | I do not think so. |
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There are many things I have never understood, and how ignorant and stupid seem the ideologues, the tyrants, and fools, who see complexity in terms of conditioned, programmed simplicities.
Who are the social engineers? Who appoints them? What shall be engineered? Who reviews their work? Need anything be engineered? Why should anything be engineered? Who will engineer a flower, or truth? Whose fingers draw the secret strings? How gross, narrow, and transparently self-serving, are so many manufactured values, principles, and injunctions.
What are the credentials of a dictatorship which would review thought, circumscribe belief, and capture the coercive powers of a state in order to protect and propagate a favored orthodoxy? Yet, to be sure, such crimes are muchly precedent in the history of a world; they are perennially familiar to the troubled biography of a species.
How many oppressions have been enforced, heresies persecuted, beliefs proscribed, truths denied, absurdities proclaimed! Behind the glistening veils may crouch an unnatural beast.
How naive I am, how unpolitical I am.
Why does the chain lure me? Why does the sight of the whip, and the knowledge that it may be used upon me, thrill me? I wonder if my feelings are unique.
I do not think so.
- (Smugglers of Gor)