Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 26 | 19 | In this View more quotes about sense">sense, polities may appear on maps but not borders. |
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 26 | 16 | Similarly there is no international law. |
| 26 | 17 | Law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity. |
| 26 | 18 | The common Gorean polity is the town, village, or city, and whatever territory about the polity to which it can extend its hegemony. |
| 26 | 19 | In this sense, polities may appear on maps but not borders. |
| 26 | 20 | The territory controlled by a polity is likely, historically, to wax and wane with the fortunes of the polity. |
| 26 | 21 | The nearest things to nations would seem to be the large island Ubarates, such as Tyros and Cos, where the sea forms natural barriers, or borders, so to speak, but even there power seems centered in particular cities, such as Kasra and Jad. |
| 26 | 22 | A saying I have heard seems germane here, "the laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos". |
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Similarly there is no international law.
Law, for most practical purposes, reaches no further than the swords of a given polity.
The common Gorean polity is the town, village, or city, and whatever territory about the polity to which it can extend its hegemony.
In this sense, polities may appear on maps but not borders.
The territory controlled by a polity is likely, historically, to wax and wane with the fortunes of the polity.
The nearest things to nations would seem to be the large island Ubarates, such as Tyros and Cos, where the sea forms natural barriers, or borders, so to speak, but even there power seems centered in particular cities, such as Kasra and Jad.
A saying I have heard seems germane here, "the laws of Cos march with the spears of Cos".
- (Plunder of Gor)