Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 981 | The test of a View more quotes about society">society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 978 | It is difficult to know what would constitute a good society. |
| 9 | 979 | Perhaps it would be a necessary condition for such a society that its institutions would be compatible, at least, with the truths of biology. |
| 9 | 980 | A society which sickens and weakens its members, which cripples them and denies them to themselves, is not obviously superior to a society in which human beings are organic and whole, healthy, and happy and great. |
| 9 | 981 | The test of a society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members. |
| 9 | 982 | Let each look about himself and judge for himself the success of his own society. |
| 9 | 983 | Man lives confused in the ruins of ideologies. |
| 9 | 984 | Perhaps he will someday emerge from the caves and pens of his past. |
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It is difficult to know what would constitute a good society.
Perhaps it would be a necessary condition for such a society that its institutions would be compatible, at least, with the truths of biology.
A society which sickens and weakens its members, which cripples them and denies them to themselves, is not obviously superior to a society in which human beings are organic and whole, healthy, and happy and great.
The test of a society is perhaps not its conformance or nonconformance to principles but the nature and human prosperity of its members.
Let each look about himself and judge for himself the success of his own society.
Man lives confused in the ruins of ideologies.
Perhaps he will someday emerge from the caves and pens of his past.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)