Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 97 | "What happens then?" I asked. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 94 | The offending war chief is View more quotes about simply">simply abandoned, left alone in his palace to be impaled by the citizens of the city he has tried to usurp". |
| 3 | 95 | I nodded, imagining a palace, empty save for one man sitting alone on his throne, clad in his robes of state, waiting for the angry people outside the gates to break through and work their wrath. |
| 3 | 96 | "But," said my father, "sometimes such a war chief, or Ubar, wins the hearts of his men, and they refuse to withdraw their allegiance". |
| 3 | 97 | "What happens then?" I asked. |
| 3 | 98 | "He becomes a tyrant," said my father, "and rules until eventually, in one way or another, he is ruthlessly deposed". |
| 3 | 99 | My father's eyes were hard and seemed fixed in thought. |
| 3 | 100 | It was not mere political theory he spoke to me. |
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The offending war chief is simply abandoned, left alone in his palace to be impaled by the citizens of the city he has tried to usurp".
I nodded, imagining a palace, empty save for one man sitting alone on his throne, clad in his robes of state, waiting for the angry people outside the gates to break through and work their wrath.
"But," said my father, "sometimes such a war chief, or Ubar, wins the hearts of his men, and they refuse to withdraw their allegiance".
"What happens then?" I asked.
"He becomes a tyrant," said my father, "and rules until eventually, in one way or another, he is ruthlessly deposed".
My father's eyes were hard and seemed fixed in thought.
It was not mere political theory he spoke to me.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)