Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 179 | "The state has View more quotes about power">power," I said, "and the ambitious, covetous, and unscrupulous seek power. |
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 176 | "Have you not considered the possibility that your most dangerous enemy may not be thieves and brigands, bandits and killers, but Cos itself, the state?" "I do not understand," he said. |
| 1 | 177 | "Who will control the state?" I asked. |
| 1 | 178 | "What are you saying?" he asked, bewildered. |
| 1 | 179 | "The state has power," I said, "and the ambitious, covetous, and unscrupulous seek power. |
| 1 | 180 | Thus they gravitate to the state. |
| 1 | 181 | They seek the state. |
| 1 | 182 | Every tyranny seeks to disarm those it rules, to better have them at its mercy. |
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"Have you not considered the possibility that your most dangerous enemy may not be thieves and brigands, bandits and killers, but Cos itself, the state?" "I do not understand," he said.
"Who will control the state?" I asked.
"What are you saying?" he asked, bewildered.
"The state has power," I said, "and the ambitious, covetous, and unscrupulous seek power.
Thus they gravitate to the state.
They seek the state.
Every tyranny seeks to disarm those it rules, to better have them at its mercy.
- (Avengers of Gor)