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Political

Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	75	"The city-state," said my father, speaking to me late one afternoon, "is the basic political division on Gor—hostile cities controlling what territory they can in their environs, surrounded by a no-man's land of open ground on every side".	10
3	100	It was not mere political theory he spoke to me.	10
5	21	There was now an empire of Ar, a robust, arrogant, warlike polity only too obviously involved in the work of dividing its enemies and extending its political hegemony city by city across the plains, hills, and deserts of Gor.	10
8	31	In that moment I detested the Initiates of Ar, who, like other members of their caste throughout Gor, were only too eager to seize some particle of the political power they had supposedly renounced in choosing to wear the white robes of their calling.	10
8	32	The real purpose of the "sacrifice to the Priest-Kings" was probably to remove possible claimants to the throne of Ar and thereby strengthen their own political position.	10
15	178	They crave political power, but can't understand it or manipulate it.	10
16	6	Treated as a pleasure slave, she would have negligible political value.	10
19	10	Marlenus was, in general, well informed of the political situation; indeed, to be so informed required only the vantage point he had so stoutly defended for several days and a particle of awareness.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	2	Here even in the noble city of Tharna there was intrigue, political strife, ambition that would not brook confinement.	10

Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	154	Undoubtedly there was some type of rivalry or political division between them.	10
31	96	The more difficult matters had to do with the political arrangements that would allow these two diverse species to inhabit peaceably and prosperously the same dwelling.	10
33	68	I surmised that, pending some form of military victory of Ar over the other cities or some form of large-scale political reordering of the planet, the Initiate of Ar's claims would remain a matter of dispute.	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	512	Elizabeth, besides speaking boldly out on a large number of delicate civic, social and political issues, usually not regarded as the province of the fairer sex, categorically refused to wear the cumbersome Robes of Concealment traditionally expected of the free woman.	10

Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	167	The council, I expected, itself composed of captains, men much like myself, would provide a political structure within which my ambitions and projects might well prosper.	10
11	170	I expected that there would be support for this position, both from men like myself, self-seeking men, wise in political realities, and from the inevitable and useful fools, abundant even in Port Kar, hoping simply for a saner and more efficient governance of their city.	10
15	116	Meanwhile, while I had been plying the trade of pirate, the military and political ventures of the Council itself, within the city, had proceeded well.	10

Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	304	And who knew what political occurrences might take place in Port Kar? I was popular in the city.	10
12	7	I would, from under the nose of Marlenus, preferably by trade, snatch Talena, thus evening the score for his banishment of me from Ar, thus regaining her, thus winning glory, thus setting my ladder against the political heights of the planet Gor, for, with such a woman at my side, there were few doo...	10
12	26	I was already a rich and powerful man, but my political power did not extend beyond Port Kar.	10
12	27	And in Port Kar, I recalled, my political power, strictly, extended no further than my vote in the Council of Captains.	10
12	31	Economic power and political power are like the left and the right foot.	10
12	80	The alliance, of course, would be understood, on all sides, as not altering the political conditions obtaining between the cities.	10
12	108	They exercised little political power beyond their own borders.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	95	Whereas Initiates tend not to be taken with great seriousness by the high castes, or the more intelligent members of the population, except in matters of political alliance, their teachings and purported ability to intercede with Priest-Kings, and further the welfare of their adherents, is taken wit...	10

Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	564	"She is no longer of political use to us," he said, "but her slave meat is not without interest".	10
13	432	On Gor they are rescued from the political and sexual deserts of Earth; branded, collared, dressed revealingly, they find themselves for the first time in their lives, though embonded, far more free than they could ever have believed possible on Earth; gone is the ennui, the vacuity; on Gor they fin...	10
24	806	"Men on Earth," she cried, "will be dethroned by law!" "Earth has a complex and intricate political history," I said.	10
26	1206	The political ascendancy of the party which had been willing to destroy Gor, to secure the Earth, had, with the failure of their project, doubtless been brief.	10

Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	429	Could they believe a world might exist where men, shouting political slogans, vied with one another to surrender their dominance, hastening gleefully to their own castration? Could such a world be welcomed by any save man-haters, freaks, frustrates and Lesbians, and men who were not men? Truth and p...	10
22	360	The very sight of a female slave, particularly as they are likely to be garbed, and must move, would be likely to stun a man of Earth; nothing has prepared him to believe that such women exist; one of the things that would be most likely to startle him, if not trouble him, perhaps cause him initial ...	10
2	784	It did not suggest the correct political conclusions.	10
4	1033	It was not the freedom of convention I then felt but the freedom of nature, not the freedom to be what I was not, which had been prescribed to me, but the freedom rather to be what I was, which, for complex social and historical reasons, had been long denied to me; it was not the freedom of politica...	10
5	137	The match had been initiated at the behest of Kleomenes, who was interested in negotiating a commercial and political alliance with the Salerian Confederation.	10
5	187	I was only a slave, but I did not think myself much less free than the Lady Sabina, whose beauty was being bartered for commercial and political power.	10
5	211	I supposed he was not too pleased at being matched with a girl who was not of the five high castes, but surely he could appreciate the commercial and political significance of the match, and would be pleased to serve his city by doing his part.	10
6	60	I was liberated from political and economic roles of male impersonation and freed to be myself, a woman.	10
7	17	The motivation for this abduction, as well as the motivation for the companionship originally, was apparently political.	10
7	18	The companionship was to weld commercial and political relationships between Fortress of Saphronicus and the Salerian Confederation, which was an aggressive and expanding league of cities northeast of the Vosk.	10
7	27	Already, only some years ago, Ar had tasted the bitterness of enemies within her walls, when, in the political confusion following the temporary loss of her Home Stone and the deposition of her Ubar, Marlenus, there had been a revolt of tributary cities, organized and led by Pa-Kur, Master of the Ca...	10
7	219	The companionship, of course, was political.	10
15	348	"I am an agent of a military and political power, a greater power than you understand exists, one of interplanetary scope.	10
27	456	She had once been the Lady Sabina of Fortress of Saphronicus, the daughter of Kleomenes, of Fortress of Saphronicus, promised in Companion Contract, in a proposed political alliance intended to further the fortunes of Fortress of Saphronicus and the Salerian Confederation, to the fifth son of the wa...	10

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	83	Political negotiation and intrigue are rampant, too, generally secretly so, at the fairs.	10
9	249	Falsification is doubtless essential to certain political agendas, and the power-seekings of certain parties, but falsification remains falsification.	10
15	527	It is sad that the true needs of women must then be sacrificed to the ignorance of men and the political and economic ambitions of hirsute frustrates".	10
15	539	A true liberation of women might be desirable, one which would permit them to be themselves, whatever they might be, a liberation that would free a woman to be feminine rather than constrict her to the imitation of manhood, a liberation without preset images and goals, which would permit her to find...	10
24	481	Perhaps women, after all, are not women, but only small, incomplete men, as many women and men, espousing the current political and economic orthodoxies on the matter, the required, expected views on the matter, would insist.	10
35	442	Earth, as the Kur sees it, and I hesitate to speculate with what accuracy, is a meretricious, polluted, materialistic sphere too sophisticated, too culturally advanced, to be influenced by the obsolescent, primitive considerations of loyalty and honor, eccentric impediments to success, to be put on ...	10
35	470	I supposed they had not been told that when their political and military work for their faction was completed they would be silked and collared and kept as slaves.	10

Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	736	Criminals, political prisoners, and such are rowed to these poles and left there, clinging to them.	10
2	160	She, like others, doubtless, when their political duties were finished, would have been collared and silked, and set to the task of learning to please masters.	10
18	110	Too, to seal the bonds of these political bargains, he, on behalf of Aibu, offered to Bila Huruma the very daughter of the high chief, Aibu, himself, a girl named Tende, as one of his companions.	10
20	65	Certainly both had been promptly vended, Sasi to Filimbi, whom I had heard of, the owner of a paga tavern, and the blond-haired barbarian directly or indirectly to an agent of Bila Huruma, quite possibly with the immediate object in mind of being used as a component in a matched set of girls, white ...	10
27	198	Suddenly, for the first time they suspect that this is something very important about them, that it is not merely a political irrelevancy, or embarrassment, that it is not merely a trivial contingent fact about their being, negligible in its significance and to be ignored if at all possible.	10
32	490	The political concern with the flourishing of nature stops short at human nature.	10
33	51	"Do you truly think that Bila Huruma," I asked, "who owns or is companion to perhaps hundreds of women would pursue you into the jungle at great risk to himself and his empire to get back one girl, a girl whom he doubtless realizes has by now been reduced to slavery, and has thus been rendered polit...	10
52	27	"A lovely slave gift," said Bila Huruma, "a lovely token of esteem and good will, but scarcely sufficient to consolidate a matter as weighty as a political alliance".	10
52	113	"With all due respect, Kisu, you are not of sufficient political importance to warrant a duel with a Ubar".	10
57	97	In addition to its political importance it had given the talunas an opportunity to learn to dance and serve.	10

Book 14. (15 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	81	It was, of course, a useful instrumentality to certain types of women in the pursuit of their political ambitions.	10
1	242	"Your official position, whatever its political values, is a perversion not only of truth but of biology".	10
1	574	Most obviously they can be reflected in the evaluations of the student's work and in his letters of recommendation, particularly those written by strict professors of the correct political persuasions, whatever they happen to be at the particular institution in question.	10
1	757	After centuries of disparagement why should they not now, with a vengeance, set themselves up as models for their sex? Why should they not now, so long denied the world, attempt now through rhetoric and politics to bend it to their designs? Can you blame them? Can you not understand their hatred for...	10
1	781	Indeed, it suddenly struck me as not only strange that she had addressed this question, presumably a rhetorical question to me, but, too, that this was precisely the sort of thing which, for no reason I clearly understood, women of her political persuasion spent a great deal of time, excessively in ...	10
5	167	That is far deeper than your myths and political inventions, regardless of their expediency in your form of society".	10
7	250	It was not congenial to the contemporary political myths of my planet.	10
7	456	Freedom in some abstract, or political, sense is clearly not essential to the happiness of a woman.	10
11	400	The crucial political entity for Goreans tends to be the city or village, the place where people and power are.	10
11	415	They tend to involve, usually, only a few cities and their associated villages and territories, rather than gigantic political entities such as nations.	10
11	421	I think the best explanation for the Gorean political arrangements and attitudes is to be found in the institution of the Home Stone.	10
12	362	Girls of political interest, too, it might be mentioned, are usually included in this category.	10
13	51	It may also be of interest to note that what began as a defensive league instituted primarily to protect shipping on a river gradually, but expectedly, began to evolve into a considerable political force in eastern known Gor.	10
21	126	"It is unusual, is it not, to travel on Gorean roads at night?" "Yes, it is unusual," said Barus, "particularly in times like these, what with the tense political situation existing between Ar and the Salerian Confederation.	10
21	129	The political situation was indeed complex, and might, by various parties, allies and enemies, and others, and even bystanders, be diversely influenced or exploited.	10

Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	46	This would give Ar political leverage at the confluence of the Olni and Vosk, a strategic point if Cos should ever choose to move in force eastward along the Vosk.	10
9	165	And how dismayed she had been to have been come upon in the restaurant by two of those she so feared, two of her fellow students, gross, mulelike females, politically sanctimonious, smug in dogmatism and power, examples of the ideologically obsessed mediocrities whose intent it was to turn a univers...	10
11	402	I knew at least one culture in which this obvious, biological truism would count as political heresy, to be punished by ostracism, slander and, when possible, by economic penalties.	10
13	105	Here I do not need to be a political puppet.	10
22	120	She had gone about her business, and studies, and such, on Earth, trying so seriously to conform to political and social pressures, fearing not to, being anxious to dress as required, to think as required, to feel as required, trying fearfully to please others who regarded her softness and femininit...	10
22	127	But then that is one of the inconveniences of nature, that it can upon occasion prove a political embarrassment.	10
29	55	When a Gorean city founds a colony, usually as a result of internal overpopulation or political dissension, the potential colonists, typically, even before leaving the mother city, develop their own charter, constitution and laws.	10
30	153	Surely not every man of Earth was as meaningless, as trivial, as obedient, as unquestioning, as well trained, as emasculated and effete as their various political imprisonments demanded.	10
30	154	I had little doubt but that somewhere on Earth, in spite of censorship, media control, manipulated education and outright political suppression, and the almost nonexistent channels for expressing alternative viewpoints, some males remained men.	10

Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	273	No longer could she be content with the political parodies and caricatures of womanhood insisted upon in her environment.	10
17	376	"If the men of Earth choose to surrender the birthright of their dominance, to exchange it for the garbage of a political perversion; if they should choose to deny their genes; if they should choose to subvert and violate the order of nature; if they should choose self-castration to manhood, that is...	10
17	796	"Political forms may be replaced".	10
20	130	They would wait, it seemed, to see whether or not the league became an effective, practical political reality upon the Vosk.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1301	"There is no division here," I said, "between the political and the judicial".	10

Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	72	She had been in political command, under Kog and Sardak, of a force of approximately a thousand mercenaries, the human contingent accompanying Kog and Sardak, and their death squad, into the Barrens.	10
56	81	"A shift in political power has taken place in the Cliffs," he said.	10

Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	227	Did she not know that true men repudiated their natural sovereignty, forsook their manhood and conformed to prescribed stereotypes? Was she not familiar with the political definitions? I wondered then if there might not be another sort of true men, true men, like true lions, who, innocent of negativ...	10
5	56	He was a highly intelligent man, and familiar, clearly, with the geographical and political features of the problems.	10
36	438	Were they, too, capable of humanity, not a humanity defined to promote political agendas, but a true humanity, one of strength, biology, intelligence, and rationality, a humanity emergent from nature, rather than one engineered to negate, frustrate and poison her? Surely, I thought, the men of Earth...	10
36	857	For political and social reasons societies and cultures have often conspired, by means of a variety of devices, to suppress the natural woman, to use the woman herself to imprison her own being, to instill in her an insidious inertness, or frigidity, to inculcate in her a guilt concerning, and a sus...	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	48	Once marked and collared, of course, her political interest had vanished.	10
5	449	Briefly the thought of another world crossed my mind, one frightened of true manhood, one at war with it, one concerned to inculcate political insanities, to redefine manhood, turning it into its opposite, a world intent on stunting, crippling, reducing, and destroying men, turning them into pliant,...	10
6	1250	One must always be ready, too, to capitalize on such things as local color, current happenings, the current political situation, popular or well-known figures, the prejudices of a district, and so on.	10
16	971	"It is my understanding that the cities of Brundisium and Ar stand leagued firmly in friendship, that the wine has been drunk between them, and the salt and fire shared, that they are pledged both in comity and alliance, military and political.	10

Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	342	They had belonged to significant portions of the political and mercantile aristocracy of Torcadino.	10
14	66	He was apparently not only a military genius but perhaps also a political one.	10
15	214	Too, I suspect your ejection of the civilian population from Torcadino is not merely political, to appear to show concern, generosity, and mercy, nor merely expedient, to remove them from the city, thus conserving supplies and removing possible Cosian sympathizers from behind your back, but to incre...	10
25	1008	To be sure, here and there, on Earth, I supposed, there must be men who saw through these educational traps and nets, these political endeavors and artifices, men who understood what their enemies were trying to do to them, and simply did not accept it.	10
25	1378	Another danger, and perhaps one more serious, is that a misdirected response would be provoked in which, say, angry males, perhaps unable to take direct action because of the numerous, carefully wrought political traps and snares trammeling them, would think themselves, consciously or subconsciously...	10
25	2225	"I wonder who truly loves himself, and women," she whispered, "he who is true to himself and his nature, refusing to deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, and who fulfills women, as what they really are, or he who betrays himself, who lies to himself and who denies the true needs of women?" "Aside fr...	10

Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	45	It seems that in the distant past of Gor these kinship allegiances were, in effect, political allegiances, or generated political allegiances, which, later, interestingly, as life became more complex, and populations more mobile, became separated.	10
1	100	Surely only a terrible woman, a low woman, a shameful, wicked, worthless woman, a reproach to her entire sex, one with depths and needs antedating her century, one with needs not indexed to political orthodoxies, one with needs older and deeper, and more real and profound, more ancient and marvelous...	10
1	105	If what faced me in the mirror was not a real woman in some contemporary, transient, idiosyncratic political sense, it was at least something biologically far deeper, and a thousand times more real, a true woman.	10
5	106	Our leader was a short, plump blonde who had been a political columnist for a small suburban newspaper on the northeast coast of the United States.	10
5	107	She had been a political-science major in college.	10
9	313	On my own world I was a modern woman, of sorts, independent, and free, and with political power, particularly with fearful, cringing men.	10
10	71	Indeed, considering the social and political deserts in which we were sexually starved, it would not have surprised me in the least, if we, once it became clear to us, to our joy, that we now had no culturally prescribed alternatives to being women, that we were now no longer subjected to social pre...	10
11	650	How absurd then, and artificial, and unreal, suddenly, seemed Earth, with all its preposterous political myths, its subversion of nature, its insidious conditioning programs, its pretendings to deny the simple, obvious truths of aristocracy, its contrived trammelings of right and power, its desperat...	10
17	262	It had much excited me, in its style, beauty and graphicness, and in its simple, unquestioned, unevasive public representation, albeit in a political and commemorative context, of natural biological relationships.	10
22	77	I did not know if the high intelligence of Gorean men was a function of those men who had been brought to Gor in the distant past, perhaps chosen for intelligence, as well as other qualities, or if it had to do rather, for the most part, with the exhilarating, liberating Gorean cultural milieu, one ...	10

Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	478	A good besieging captain is usually aware of the political dissensions within a polity and attempts to exploit them, a promised consequence of his success supposedly being to bring one party or another into power.	10
12	396	They learn, soon enough, however, that the average Gorean male simply does not share the conditioned political conceptions of the female which in so many cases have succeeded in crippling, weakening and demasculinizing the men of Earth.	10
21	750	Though we have close ties, historical, cultural and political, with Cos, we are, unlike Ar's Station, a sovereign polity in our own right.	10

Book 24. (14 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	77	Doubtless it ended something of a political tension in the city, and I take it that Tharna now, under the governance of its councils, and its administrator, Kron, has at last achieved a commendable political consistency.	10
37	177	That is the way that they liked to think of her, for political reasons, and, indeed, for political reasons, the way they would want her; but it is not the way she is.	10
1	366	Indeed, perhaps he was flaunting an immunity of some sort, political or treasonous.	10
4	49	Once, long ago, they had been lieutenants of Cernus of Ar, my enemy, whose machinations, and political and economic manipulations, had been successful in bringing down Minus Tentius Hinrabius from the throne of Ar.	10
9	119	"That is Ina, Lady of Ar," said a man, "attached to the staff of Saphronicus, a political observer, said to be a confidante of, and to report to, the Lady Talena, of Ar, herself".	10
12	99	To be sure, this war was largely a matter of skirmishes, almost always at sea, and political formality.	10
12	250	To be sure, they are sometimes of economic, political or social interest to ambitious men, men interested in using them to improve their fortunes, further their careers, and so on.	10
12	266	But then I thought that the Lady Ina, perhaps, would not have high enough standing to be of interest in, say, political modalities to a man such as Saphronicus.	10
14	164	"To political realignments," I said, "to the supremacy of Cos".	10
19	1256	Let us suppose that, to his amazement, and perhaps consternation, it becomes clear to him one evening that she has somehow changed, that she has somehow become a needful, radically sexual creature, really, and not for mere political purposes, so to speak.	10
26	78	As nearly as I could determine from the reports of the silver merchant Lara's abdication was not forced, nor even the result of extreme political pressures brought on her, but a voluntary act, one apparently regarded by her as being not only in the best interests of the city but in her own best inte...	10
31	407	"As you are still a free woman, Ina," I said, "and not a slave, an animal, you still have a permissible interest in political matters".	10
37	173	The anthropological point is simply one of fact, which, one supposes, is worth noting, but does not require extensive comment, namely, freedom, particularly of the social and political sort, however estimable it may be, is not a necessary condition for human happiness; two other factors are more imp...	10
39	113	Later, emptied of all sensitive and pertinent military and political information, and retaining merely her values as a female, she was given away as might have been any other spoil of war, she in this instance, and by design, to one of the captain's lowest soldiers, a rude and common fellow of the l...	10

Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	247	In a tent I heard a heated political discussion.	10
5	81	I had little doubt, personally, from what I had learned of the intrigues in Ar that this offer had some role to play in the complicated political games afoot in that metropolis.	10
8	525	He little understood idealisms of this sort, those of naive, short-sighted political abstractions.	10
9	236	What the women of Ar and those of Cos have in common, of course, despite their numerous political, cultural and dialectical differences, is that they are all females.	10
9	397	"You wished to use him to further your own political ambitions," said Talena.	10
9	399	"But your political ambitions are soon to be at an end," said Talena.	10
10	95	"Political prisoners," said Marcus.	10
11	247	"Surely there are only a few," I said, "perhaps a few madmen who cannot understand the barest essentials of the most obvious realities, political and prudential".	10
13	225	Others, adopting the political ruses of Cos, had scorned them as little better than criminals, and as purveyors of imperialism, as though the ambitions of Cos were not the equal of those of Ar.	10
13	241	Until now they have doubtless been restrained only by the general effectiveness of their political warfare, the policies of spreading guilt, confusion and self-doubt in the enemy, pretending to be not the foe but the concerned friend and ally".	10
14	655	"You had an opportunity here to strike a blow for Cos, to humiliate the men of Ar, to further reduce and degrade them, to force them to submit even to the insolence and arrogance of slaves, to further subdue and crush them, to remind them of their sorry lot, of their political and military weakness,...	10
21	224	Surely, Master, she must understand the political aspects of such things!" "Continue," I said.	10
21	523	"Remember," I said, "it is only she being sold, not her reputation, not her political importance, not her symbolic value as an acquisition, not her value as a trophy, not her possible historical interest as a collector's item, and such, but only she, only the girl, only another slave".	10
27	49	"I know a world where such things, in a sense, are often done," I said, "a world in which, for political purposes, and to further the interests and ambitions of certain factions, there are wholesale attempts to suppress, thwart, stunt and deny manhood.	10
27	1007	"I was more of a prize, or a political prisoner.	10

Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	13	"The free woman is a political concept," I said, "with a particular political history, relevant to a particular time and place.	10
6	41	"She is absolutely ignorant of the political situation?" asked the fellow I did not know.	10
6	114	"I might, with your permission," said the first fellow, "mention that this particular item has certain qualities to recommend it, should you be interested in them, beyond being intelligent, an outworlder, having developed, in a short time, a modest command of the language, and being ignorant of poli...	10
9	241	Here I had found myself put in my place, not my political place, but my true place.	10
11	708	Behind the fabrications and prevarications of political facades lurks the Realpolitik, so to speak, of nature.	10
14	275	"—you are to exchange little or no political or military information".	10
14	1324	Perhaps, given their culture, in which are secured their natural rights, those of manhood and the mastery, they can afford to be whole men here, not cultural or political half-men, of one sort or another.	10
19	88	They may also gather information of political or strategic interest.	10
46	357	"In the biological sense," he said, "as opposed to some political sense or another, whatever is current".	10

Book 27. (20 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	128	She thought of many of the men and women she had known on Earth, in particular colleagues and individuals met at various conferences and conventions having to do with gender issues, conventions which were not so scholarly, as she now understood, as political, organized to propagandize an ideology, s...	10
21	186	whom she had been, she who had specialized in gender studies, she who had been so smug and haughty, she who had been so proud of her degree and her publications, she who had been respected, even esteemed, for her unquestioned political orthodoxies, she who had been invited to attend many conferences...	10
2	63	He had not accepted her pronouncements without question, though they were, for the most part, merely being relayed by her, almost verbatim, from the dicta of various scholar activists in the movement, women who had devoted their lives to the promulgation of a political agenda.	10
2	86	Lastly, she had insisted, in anger and confusion, on fashionable postmodernistic analyses, on the alleged social aspect of, and role of, "truth," as a weapon of ideological warfare, on the right of the scholar activist to alter, conceal, suppress, invent and falsify in order to comply with political...	10
2	89	He then asked her if her general views on truth itself, its alleged subservience to political ends, its relativity, subjectivity, or such, were themselves true, or not.	10
9	48	In Gorean society, with its emphasis on locality and neighborhood, with its diverse Home Stones, each with its own history and traditions, with its many castes and subcastes, each with its acknowledged privileges and rights, and obligations, respected by all, political upheavals, social disruptions,...	10
9	139	Tell us all about men and women, and social artifacts, and roles, and such things, how conventional everything is, and political and capricious, and how the human species, alone of all the other species, has no nature, and how genetics is meaningless, and biology false, and endocrinology irrelevant,...	10
10	361	"Do not those of your ideology dare to use that sacred, holy, terrible word, that word for nature's last and fiercest arbiter, that maker and unmaker of states, that creator and destroyer of cultures, singing songs of armies, and blood and steel, that ultimate and terrifying tribunal, with all the m...	10
11	305	It had been denied to them for centuries by one sort of fanatics and now it was again being denied to them, on her own world, by a new form of fanatics, building on the insanities, cruelties and envy of their predecessors, utilizing the poisons of the past in the interests of unnatural, self-serving...	10
12	340	She had long ago abandoned, at least in her official views, the acknowledgedly obsolescent category of "wicked," with its suppressive, grotesque historical antecedents, but, on the other hand, it was difficult for her to clear her mind of the fumes, the noxious residue, of the past, particularly as ...	10
16	392	On Earth, of course, no deleterious consequences of such charades and antics are likely to occur; indeed, they may earn their practitioners commendations from pathological quarters in which it is not permitted to so much as whisper of nature and the biotruths of a species; indeed, further, such expo...	10
16	882	To be sure, if one's political programs require the devirilization, and consequent destruction, of the docile, obedient, duped male, then one must do all one can to confuse, deny, blur, and eliminate sexual differences, in this project having recourse to whatever distortions, lies, misrepresentation...	10
17	131	Did they really believe the absurdities of the antimenites? Were they interested, rather, in their own political futures, willing to be male camp followers, hoping to be permitted to share eventually in the loot of grants, appointments, and prestige? They had seemed so spineless, so ingratiating.	10
20	401	There were some cage wagons, perhaps carrying high slaves or women of political importance.	10
22	141	In the interests of advancing a particular political agenda she had had to deny large numbers of the most obvious facts of ethology, biology and anthropology.	10
23	44	Might not that sight, or vision, then, as though accompanied with a clap of thunder, change him forever, showing him a possibility which might transform him from an indoctrinated, manipulated, obsequious political puppet striving to please those who secretly hate and despise him into a male, one sud...	10
26	688	It seems he escaped and made his way toward Ar, but somehow he seems unaware of the political realities in the city, and neither to understand nor know his true self".	10
27	97	Gone then are the false starts and distractions, the conflicts and confusions, the dissonances consequent upon the imposition of false images, of political contrivances engineered by manipulators and haters.	10
27	115	Doubtless there were subconscious depths and mysteries here which eluded superficial explanations, which eluded the facile, at-hand, convenient, shallow categories of the ideologically conditioned understanding, which defied political mockeries of human nature, a reference to realities which lay dee...	10
27	3292	To be sure, in her ideological pride and her sense of political propriety, she had made it a point to learn little or nothing of cooking on Earth, feeling such a homely task, and one so often associated with women, was wholly inappropriate for her, a female intellectual.	10

Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

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1	521	On Earth it seems their sexual needs were suppressed in favor of various neuterisms and political expediencies, and sacrificed to a variety of peculiar societal imperatives.	10
36	118	In such a culture it is not the unimportant empirical contingency, the biological irrelevancy, the meaningless anatomical fortuity, it is claimed to be in a world of anonymity and negativity, of neuterism, that of a world engineered to abet the mindless servicing of machines, technological and econo...	10
73	211	It may be supposed then that the slave in the stable, despite the handicap of her incarceration, was already well aware of certain profound alterations in the world, political, and otherwise.	10
77	217	Political reservations obtain against us.	10
77	218	Gor will be better for us, more open, providing some advantages denied us here, affording us greater opportunities for political activity, more scope for intrigue and ambition.	10

Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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26	331	Her primary use now, if any, was that of an item of goods which, given an unusual political situation, might be exchanged for ten thousand tarns of gold, of double weight.	10
28	248	His motivations in this matter, I suspected, were primarily political.	10

Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

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7	112	Did someone realize her possible political importance? Seremides, perhaps? Or was she confined this deeply within the ship because she had incurred the displeasure of masters, having been apprehended in a lie? She had, it seems, been discovered to be lash-worthy, and had been put under the lash.	10
17	114	On the other hand, as I understood it, Lord Nishida had no great personal interest in the slave, other than her political value, as a gift to a greater lord.	10
21	159	I did gather that some uncertainty attached to certain political and military matters.	10
24	235	I assume, given the precautions exercised, and such, that they were well aware of her political and economic importance.	10
36	17	Apparently fair-skinned female slaves were rare in the islands, and often figured, amongst other gifts, in the attempts to woo political alliances.	10

Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

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2	35	In this narrative I am to deal, at least largely, with certain dark matters, political and military, matters which few here suspect, matters certainly unbeknownst to the vast majority of you, you who, in your scattered communities, in your villages, your towns, and walled cities, inhabit this fresh,...	10
4	96	Examining our rooms in our absence, while we were in class, certain books had been discovered, literature certainly inappropriate for our prestigious house, one of the most exclusive and inaccessible on campus, and inappropriate, as well, for our small, expensive, illustrious, private institution, o...	10
4	122	And even if such efforts should prove overtly successful it is not unlikely that some copies will elude the insecure and bigoted, and will continue to circulate, as an underground literature, if nothing else, hidden here and there, and passed secretly from hand to hand, a badge of understanding and ...	10
4	139	Did they not know the formulas? Were they unaware of the political requirements imposed on contemporary literature? Were such so obscure, or difficult to discern? What an unexpected paradox, to put aside the rules, to deny orthodoxy, to speak so plainly, so simply and quietly, and naturally, of a cu...	10
4	158	Could it be that I was not alone, that I was not an isolated, shameful exception to the pompous glories of political orthodoxy? How rare is courage! How mighty is the shuffling, drifting, dull, pressing herd! Eve, Jane, and I exchanged frightened glances.	10
4	237	At the least they are not clearly in accord with various prescribed political proprieties".	10
4	288	"And, as such," she said, "in the possession of such literature, well aware of its political impropriety, you have behaved inexcusably".	10
8	1043	I knew little about the former Lady Persinna, or the affairs, political and otherwise, which had brought her to a tiny, readying cell in the Metellan district, but I hoped that her master would put a different name on her.	10
8	1198	Had I been born on Gor and you on Earth, would I not, then, be the Gorean and you the barbarian? It is not our fault if we do not know what you know, your caste customs, your legends, your political arrangements, the histories of your cities, your holidays, your famous generals, musicians, poets, an...	10
8	1892	"What I have in mind is the nature of your social, economic, and political relationships to men".	10
10	830	He, though a stranger to Gor, was at least no stranger to matters of rank, distance, and hierarchy, no stranger to questions of status, no stranger to probabilities, nor to politics and political relationships.	10
10	1065	How uneasy that would make you! Presumably there are historical, political reasons for that, perhaps involving a blatant declaration of differences amongst states, different symbols, different currencies, different customs, different practices, different ways of doing things.	10
45	67	It had been to return this ruined, blinded beast to his fellows in the Voltai that Grendel had undertaken our perilous expedition to the mountains, which expedition had unexpectedly revealed large secrets of political and military significance.	10
49	26	Indeed, it is quite possible, given the importance of the experiment, and its projected political aim, that of securing alliances with Gorean humans, that Agamemnon would have wished something of himself, his intelligence, vision, cunning, might, and power, to be incorporated in Grendel.	10
49	28	The experiment, as noted, had a political end in view, that of producing a Kur-like thing, with Kur allegiances, with enough human characteristics to interact profitably with Gorean humans, garnering alliances, and such.	10
53	23	He has recognized that this writing might be of possible service not only for its monitory aspects, political and military, particularly for Gor, but for its value to a slave, permitting her to tell her story.	10

Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6	105	But beyond the influx of refugees, more streaming in each day, the crowding, the begging, the closing of hiring tables, the raiding of garbage troughs, the sleeping in cold, damp, dangerous streets, the discordant accounts of doings to the south and east, the racing about of rumors, it was clear tha...	10
7	82	Many slaves, too, had been brought to Brundisium as a consequence of political events which, it seems, had taken place in the south.	10
25	86	These were not men of Earth, conditioned for years, for political purposes, into devirilized, malleable weaklings, males taught to deny their blood, taught to pride themselves on their lack of manhood.	10
25	243	No, no, I thought! I am a woman of Earth! I must repudiate my heart! I have been taught so! Should not biology crumble before political injunctions? What rights has she before rules, invented to thwart and subvert her? Dismiss nature.	10
39	132	Certainly I knew what the political and ideological prescriptions would be on my old world.	10
50	486	"Political matters?" said my captor.	10
52	206	"It is political," he said.	10

Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

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2	32	Perhaps, I wondered, that had less to do with military considerations, for I would not have been likely, under the circumstances, to do much to alter an outcome there unless by some happy accident, than political considerations.	10
21	56	It seemed clear to me that Lord Yamada had arranged with Tatsu to reveal a reading to his political advantage, which would then be relayed to the holding of Temmu, sooner or later, by Tajima and Pertinax.	10
37	36	"I am also sure, of course," I said, "he would be willing, as would the shogun, to sacrifice her instantly for political reasons, but why do so, if there is no advantage in doing so?" "Where is she now?" asked Haruki.	10
41	62	Given the recent storm, the pounding rain, the drenching miseries, the cold, and such, I thought it might have done Nezumi some good, helping her to learn her collar, to have been in a slave pen, but I did not think that that, for political reasons, would have been her housing.	10
42	330	Is the political agenda here so difficult to determine? Can one not sense what lies concealed behind the veils of rhetoric? Is it so difficult to detect what the advertisements are out to sell, under a hundred false labels? But faraway, and never wholly forgotten, for it lies in the blood, and genes...	10
44	74	With him were three Ashigaru, which, now, to my surprise, I recognized as the three fellows whom Tajima had entertained in the inn a few pasangs to the west, the fellows who had been disappointingly casual about fetching their gathered rice to the supply wagons, but had been more than helpful in app...	10
47	108	"No," he said, "the execution was to serve a political purpose, which no longer exists.	10
61	1145	She might, on the block, I thought, bring as much as two silver tarsks, sold, of course, as a girl, only as a girl, as nothing but a girl, not as an item of perhaps political interest.	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

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8	285	Nature, unlike self-serving political programs, is not the product of ideologically motivated committees; who would seize control of education and the means of communication, to bend innocent, trusting children, and even unwitting populations, to their views; nature is an obstacle to such programs; ...	10
49	51	Initiates do sometimes have, however, a certain political power in various municipalities, largely in virtue of their influence on the lower castes, in virtue of their hints, warnings, demands, exhortations, denunciations, and so on.	10
60	282	I had little doubt that the names 'Aelius' and 'Lucilius' had been chosen with political intent, largely to soothe apprehensions in the House of a Hundred Corridors, to suggest a relationship of sympathy and accord that might not exist, to insist on the existence of a bridge where, in reality, one m...	10
61	54	Might he not endanger himself, his house, and his plans, if he trod blindly in the social and political darkness? Surely he was aware something was suddenly very different.	10
66	5	How ancient and deep was our understanding of our sexuality, and how jejune and shallow then seemed to us the engineered distortions and strained falsities of our former world, distortions and falsities dictated by political agendas subservient to one tyranny or another.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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11	19	Furthermore, these villages are now loosely confederated, a political development traced to a man named Ho-Hak, sometimes referred to as the Ubar of the Marshes.	10
19	17	A natural, unapologetic, unassuming, unquestioned, taken-for-granted, powerful virility is common with Gorean males, presumably a consequence of the culture, which does not set itself, for political or social reasons, to diminish, undermine, cripple, and poison what otherwise would be a flourishing ...	10
40	342	He had also, it seemed reasonably clear, though presumably under orders, made me an unwitting participant in political intrigues I did not understand.	10

Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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46	88	"Some," I said, "the restless and discontented, the miserable and unhappy, those who fear nature and perhaps themselves, those who seek social, political, and economic power by pretending that nature does not exist".	10