Random Quotes

Warrior Sayings
1. "All wisdom and truth does not lie in the codes." (Outlaw of Gor, p.14)

2. "A warrior takes what he wishes." (Outlaw of Gor, p.28)

3. "Until you find ..., your companion is peril and steel." (Priest-Kings of Gor, p.307)

4. "…all truth and reality is not written in one's own codes." (Raiders of Gor, p.310)

5. "Be strong and do as you will. The swords of others will set you your limits." (Marauders of Gor, p.10)

6. "Within the circle of each man's sword, therein is each man a Ubar." (Marauders of Gor, p.10)

7. "Steel is the coinage of the warrior. With it he purchases what pleases him." (Marauders of Gor, p.10)

8. "Where weapons may not be carried, it is well to carry weapons." (Marauders of Gor, p.41)

9. "There is a time and place for speaking, as there is a time and place for steel." (Slave Girl of Gor, p.269)

10. "Is it not a paradox? Men need us in order to bring about a world in which we may be scorned and disregarded…..Men seldom recall whom it was who brought them the fruits of victory." (Beasts of Gor, p.31)

11. "What is it to be a warrior? It is to keep the codes. Nothing else matters." (Beasts of Gor, p.340)

12. "What are the codes? They are nothing, and everything. They are a bit of noise, and the steel of the heart. They are meaningless and all significant. They are the difference. Without the codes men would be Kurii" (Beasts of Gor, p.340)

13. "One does not speak to a slave of the codes" (Beasts of Gor, p.340)

14. "I am of the Warriors. I will take by the sword what women please me." (Beasts of Gor, p.348)

15. "It is no dishonor to surrender." (Beasts of Gor, p.421)

16. "Steel can always command a price." (Explorers of Gor, p.86)

17. "The cynical, mercantile mind will never understand the mind of the soldier." (Explorers of Gor, p.229)

18. "No one," said he, "can take the scarlet from me, once it is granted, unless it be by the sword." (Rogue of Gor, p.182)

19. "Not everyone who is of the Warriors knows that he is of the Warriors." (Rogue of Gor, p.317)

20. "Causes exist that men may fight." (Guardsman of Gor, p.16)

21. "A sword must drink until its thirst is satisfied." (Guardsman of Gor, p.17)

22. "Tears are not unbecoming to the soldier…The soldier is a man of deep passions, and emotion. Many men cannot even understand his depths. Do not fear your currents and your powers. In the soldier are flowers and storms. Each is a part of him, and each is real. Accept both. Deny neither." (Guardsman of Gor, p.238)

23. "When a Gorean tells you to draw your blade, it is generally not wise to spend a great deal of time discussing the matter. He may have something in mind." (Savages of Gor, p.88)

24. "The steel, as is often the case, had seemed to think for itself." (Savages of Gor, p.92)

25. "Even warriors long sometimes for the sight of their own flags, atop friendly walls, for the courtyards of their keeps, for the hearths of their halls. Thus admit the Codes." (Blood Brothers of Gor, p.306)

26. "There is no incompatibility between letters and arms. The greatest soldiers are often gifted men." (Mercenaries of Gor, p.48)

27. "Many are the causes of Gor and so too, many are the captains." (Mercenaries of Gor, p.48)

28. "Many captains choose their causes on the scales of merchants, weighing their iron against gold. They fight only for the Ubar with the deepest purse." (Mercenaries of Gor, p.49)

29. "Many warriors see war as a perilous and exhilarating sport, a game of warriors and Ubars." (Vagabonds of Gor, p.18)

30. "There are no mere points of honor." (Vagabonds of Gor, p.63)

31. "It is dangerous to follow a warrior, as it is a larl or sleen. Such, too often, double back. Such, too often, turn the game." (Vagabonds of Gor, p.73-4)

32. "Did he think that the color of a fellow's garments was what made him a warrior? Surely he must realize that one not of the warriors might affect the scarlet, and that one who wore the grimed gray of a peasant, one barefoot, and armed only with the great staff, might be of the scarlet caste. I t is not the uniform which makes the warrior, the soldier." (Magicians of Gor, p.129)
33. “..,the discipline of the military, that of the Warrior, that discipline necessary for the raid, the engagement, that required for decisive and coordinated action in highly dangerous circumstances, and, even, too, that other sort of discipline, the long, slow, staying, sort of discipline, that which might be required for weeks and months, even years, that tenacity, that sturdiness, needed for the sometimes seemingly endless rigors and privations of campaigns, and wars.” (Witness of Gor, p.229)

34. “Honor has many voices, and many songs.” (Witness of Gor, p.548)

Female Warriors
1. "..she knows she is weaker than men and what this can mean;" (Nomads of Gor, p.63)

2. "There is a Gorean saying that free women, raised gently in the high cylinders, in their robes of concealment, unarmed, untrained in weapons, may, by the slaver, be plucked like flowers by the slaver." (Hunters of Gor, p.118)

3. "It is nothing for a man to overpower a female." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.143)

4. "The strength of a full-grown woman is equivalent to a twelve-year old boy." (Tribesmen of Gor, p.223)

5. "Men are the warriors and women were among the fitting spoils of their victories." (Blood Brothers of Gor, p.213)

6. "The insignia of men become empty mockeries when permitted to women." (Mercenaries of Gor, p.156)

7. "She was a large girl, and formidable to us,…, but, compared to the men, she was only another female, no different from us. Compared to them, her size and strength, really only that of a woman, was, like ours, when all was said and done, simply negligible. Compared to them she was, like us simply small and weak. Before them, and to them, she could never be any more than we, only another female, small, lovely and helpless, a mere female, totally at their mercy." (Dancer of Gor, p.107)

8. "It occurred to me how much refuge women have in a civilized world, protected by customs, by artifices, by conventions, by arrangements, by laws. Did they understand, I wondered, the tenuousness of such things, their fragility, their dependence on the will of men. Did they wonder sometimes, I wondered, what might be their lot, or how they might fare, if such things were swept away, if suddenly they no longer existed? Did they understand that then they would be as vulnerable as slaves?" (Vagabonds of Gor, p.118)

9. "All women need the protection of men, though sometimes this protection is so profound and so familiar as to escape notice. But let the barriers of civilization lapse, even for a day, and their need for men would become unmistakably apparent." (Vagabonds of Gor, p.206)

10. "Gorean men do not surrender their birthright as males, their rightful dominance, their appropriate mastery. They do not choose to be dictated to by females." (Magicians of Gor, p.51)