"A good maxim to keep in mind is that if it is not beautiful it is not Gorean." - John Norman - Nature of Gor and Goreans "Goreans care for their world. They love the sky, the plains, the sea, the rain in the summer, the snow in the winter. They will sometimes stand and watch clouds. The movement of grass in the wind is very beautiful to them. More than one Gorean poet has sung of the leaf of a Tur tree. I have known warriors who cared for the beauty of small flowers." ----Hunters of Gor "The Goreans, often so cruel to one another, tend to have an affection for wildlife and growing things, which they regard as free, and thereby deserving of great respect." ----Captive of Gor "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.  That would be a beautiful day to see.  There would be a sunlit world waiting for him." ----Slave Girl of Gor "Tears are not unbecoming to the Warrior. The Warrior is a man of deep passions and emotions. Many men cannot even understand his depths. Do not fear your currents and your powers. In the Warrior are the flowers and the storms. Each is a part of him, and each is real. Accept both. Deny neither." ----Guardsman of Gor "I once betrayed my codes," I said. "It is not my intention to do so again." I looked at her. `One does not know, truly what it is to stand, until one has fallen. Once one has fallen, then one knows, you see, what it is to stand." ----Beasts of Gor "I suddenly realized the supreme power of the united Gorean will, not divided against itself, not weak, not crippled like the wills of earth. I felt a surge of power, of unprecedented, unexpected joy. I had discovered what it was to be Gorean. I had discovered what is was, truly, to be male, to be a man. I was Gorean." ----Marauders of Gor "How beautiful women are in collars. It is no wonder men enjoy putting them in them. How beautiful is the collar itself, and yet how insignifigant is the beauty of the collar compared to the beauty and profundity of its meaning, that the women is owned." ----Guardsman of Gor "The relation of master and slave, of course, in a psychophyscial organism, of a high order of intelligence, such as human being, is beautiful and profound expression of the fundamental and central truth of animal nature, that of order and structure, and dominance and submission. It is merely the articulated, legalized expression, to be expected in rational organisms, of the biological context in which human sexuality developed, a context which can be betrayed but can never because of the ingrained nature of genetic dispositions, be fully forgotten or in the long run, successfully denied. In denying it we deny our own nature. In betraying it we betray no one but ourselves. The master will never be happy until he is a master. The slave will never be happy until she is a slave. It is the way we are." ----Explorers of Gor Haughty Free Women "According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman. Thus when she has been irritable or otherwise troublesome even a Free Companion may find herself at the foot of the couch looking forward to a pleasant night on the stones, stripped, with neither mat nor blanket, chained to the slave ring precisely as though she were a lowly slave girl. It is the Gorean way of reminding her, should she need to be reminded, that she, too, is a woman, and thus to be dominated, to be subject to men. Should she be tempted to forget this basic fact of Gorean life the slave ring set in the bottom of each Gorean couch is there to refresh her memory. Gor is a mans world." ----Priest Kings of Gor "An ignorant free woman is commomplace," I said. "An ignorant slave is an absurdity." ----Savages of Gor “Perhaps you are a Free Woman,” he said. “It is hard to imagine a slave being so stupid.” ----Kajira of Gor I am a free woman," she said. "How can you, a free man, deny me anything I want?" "Easily," I said. She looked at me, angrily. "Many free women believe they can have anything they want, merely by asking for it, or demanding it," I said, "but now you see that that is not true, at least not in a world where there are true men." ----Players of Gor Slaves and Slavery "The only question now is whether you will be adequate or inadequate slaves," he said. "This question, now that you are true slaves, is basically a question of whether you will choose to live or choose to die. That is your basic question. I suggest that you face it. Each of you must make your own choice. I caution you against one mistake, one common to stupid or uninformed girls. That is the mistake of thinking that you can escape the full implications of your position by merely adopting what you think is slave behaviour. That is not true. Authentic slave behaviour is motivated from within, and is the natural manifestation of the yielded slave herself. The will and consciousness within is that of a slave. This, then, issues in authentic slave behaviour. There are many ways, responses to physical and psycological tests, and subtle behavioural cues, to tell if slave behaviour is authentic or not. The choice, thus, is, in effect, one of whether you choose to become a total slave, surrendered and obedient in your mind as well as your behaviour, or die." ----Kajira of Gor " 'The slave," " she quoted, " 'makes no bargains; she does not desire small demands to be placed upon her; she does not ask for ease; she asks nothing; she gives all; she seeks to love and selflessly serve.' " ----Blood Brothers of Gor "The Gorean master desires more than a slave's submission, more than merely her body. A Gorean man is satisfied with nothing less than all of a slave. He will possess you, body and mind, heart and soul. Nothing less is acceptable." ----Savages of Gor "The condition of slavery does not require the collar, or the brand, or an anklet, bracelet or ring, or any such overt sign of bondage. Such things, as symbolic as they are, as profoundly meaningful as they are, and as useful as they are for marking properties, identifying masters, and such, are not necessary to slavery. They are, in effect, though their affixing can legally effect imbondment, ultimately, in themselves, tokens of bondage, and are not to be confused with the reality itself. The uncollared slave is not then a free woman but only a slave who is not then in a collar. Similarly a slave is still a slave even if her brand could be made to magically disappear or, if she has been made a slave in some other way, if she has not yet been branded." ----Renegades of Gor '`The life of a female slave,' he said, `is a life wholly given over to love. It is not a compromised life. It is not one of those lives which is part this, and part that. It is a total way of life, a total life... There are no bargains made with her, no arrangements.'' ----Mercenaries of Gor