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Like a knife, reason is innocent; like a knife, its application is a function of the hand that grasps it, the energies and will which drive it. - (Marauders of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #140)

I wondered rather in what sort of situations it might find its object. The cat, if rational, might find amusement in the twitching and trembling of the mouse which it is destroying, particle by particle. That a species laughs bespeaks its intelligence, its capacity to reason, not its goodness, not its harmlessness. Like a knife, reason is innocent; like a knife, its application is a function of the hand that grasps it, the energies and will which drive it. "We were not always simple farmers," said the Kur. It opened its mouth, that horrid orifice, lined with its double rows of white, heavy, curved fangs. "No," it said, "once we were hunters, and our bodies still bear, as reminders, the stains of our cruel past". - (Marauders of Gor)