Random Quotes

“…that people that was, to the Goreans’ knowledge, the most free, among the fiercest, among the most isolated on the planet---“
--Nomads of Gor, p.6

He would be both skillful and vain; he was Tuchuk." (Nomads of Gor, p.25)

"It is hard to outwit a Tuchuk in a bargain," remarked Harold, turning back, rather confidently." (Nomads of Gor, p.328)

No Tuchuk, I knew, cares to be the butt of a joke, especially a Turian joke. (Nomads of Gor, p.97)

They are among the proudest of the people of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world." (Nomads of Gor, p.4)

"…, the land on which the bosk graze, the land which is the land of the Tuchuks, …" (Nomads of Gor, p.26

"The wagons are said to be countless, the animals without number." (Nomads of Gor, p.21)
"Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the sky like fire, like hoofed glaciers of fur and horn moving in shaggy floods across the grass, toward me." (Nomads of Gor, p.10

The magnificent vitality of that smell, so offensive to some, astonished and thrilled me; it spoke to me of the insurgence and the swell of life itself, ebullient, raw, overflowing, unconquerable, primitive, shuffling, smelling, basic, animal, stamping, snorting, moving, an avalanche of tissue and blood and splendor, a glorious, insistent, invincible cataract of breathing and walking and seeing and feeling on the sweet, flowing, windswept mothering earth. And it was in that instant that I sensed what the bosk might mean to the Wagon Peoples." (Nomads of Gor, p.22)

"Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews form their thread; its bones and horns are split and tooled into implements of a hundred sorts, from awls, punches and spoons to drinking flagons and weapon tips; its hoofs are used for glues; its oils are used to grease their bodies against the cold. Even the dung of the bosk finds its uses on the treeless prairies, being dried and used for fuel." (Nomads of Gor, p.5)

"They would be released with the fall of darkness to run the periphery of the herds, acting, as I have mentioned, as shepherds and sentinels. They are also used if a slave escapes, for the sleen is an efficient, tireless, savage, almost infallible hunter, capable of pursuing a scent, days old, for hundreds of pasangs until, perhaps a month later, it finds its victim and tears it to pieces." (Nomads of Gor, p.28

"It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well handle the weapons of the hunt and war. Until the youth has mastered the bow, the quiva and the lance he is simply known as the first, or the second, and so on, son of such and such a father." (Nomads of Gor, p.11

"The Wagon Peoples value courage above all else." (Nomads of Gor, p.16)

"To a Tuchuk," said Harold, "success is courage-that is the important thing-courage itself-even if all else fails-that is success." (Nomads of Gor, p.273

"…that though I die, yet there will be the bosk, the grass and sky." (Nomads of Gor, p.263)

The children of the Wagon Peoples are taught the saddle of the kaiila before they can walk." (Nomads of Gor, p.17

"It might also be mentioned that the Turian warrior, in his opinion, too seldom encounters the warrior of the Wagon Peoples, who tends to be a frustrating, swift and elusive foe, striking with great rapidity and withdrawing with goods and captives almost before it is understood what has occurred." (Nomads of Gor, p.116)

"…amulets, talismans, trinkets, philters, potions, spell papers, wonder-working sleen teeth, marvelous powdered kailiauk horns, and colored, magic strings that, depending on the purpose, may be knotted in various ways and worn about the neck." (Nomads of Gor, p.28

"Each of you," he said, "the Kassars-the Kataii-the Paravaci-have their own bosk and your own wagons-live so-but in time of war-when there are those who would divide us-when there are those who would fight us and threaten our wagons and our bosk and women-our plains, our land-then let us war together-and none will stand against the Wagon Peoples-we may live alone but we are each of us of the Wagons and that which divides us is less than that which unites us-we each of us know that it is wrong to slay bosk and that it is right to be proud and to have courage and to defend our wagons and our women-we know that it is right to be strong and to be free-and so it is together that we will be strong and we will be free. Let this be pledged." (Nomads of Gor, p.334-35

"...I found myself staring up into a gray, lean, cruel face, a face that might have been made of metal. The eyes were inscrutable, as if they had been made of glass or stone and set artificially in that metallic mask of a countenance." (Tarnsman of Gor, p.136)

"With him had been a tall, strange man, broad of shoulder with large hands, a grayish face, eyes almost like glass." (Nomads of Gor, p.47)

"A man met me," said Saphrar, "a tall man-rather dreadful actually-with a face as gray as stone and eyes like glass." (Nomads of Gor, p.196)

"Pa-Kur is alive!" (Hunters of Gor, p.296)

Ubar Quotes

1. "An Ubar gives no accounting." (Assassin of Gor, p.406)

2. "It is hard to be Ubar." (Assassin of Gor, p.407)

3. "If a Ubar does not respect the law of the Home Stone, what man shall?" (Assassin of Gor, p.407)

4. "A Ubar need give no accounting, no explanation." (Raiders of Gor, p.95)

5. "Only a Ubar may sit upon the throne of a Ubar." (Slave Girl of Gor, p.114)

6. "A Ubar must think ahead." (Slave Girl of Gor, p.145)

7. "In the arts of politics, gold is more insidious than steel." (Explorers of Gor, p.223)

8. "He was a Ubar. He would not be easy to please." (Explorers of Gor, p.234)

9. "It is not always desirable to look deeply into the eyes of a Ubar. (Explorers of Gor, p.237)

10. "To truly see a Ubar, to look into his heart can be a fearful thing." (Explorers of Gor, p.237)

11. "He who sits upon the throne, it is said, is the most alone of men." (Explorers of Gor, p.237)

12. "Only one can sit upon the throne,.." (Explorers of Gor, p.243)

13. "The Ubar must contain within himself dark strengths. He must be capable of doing, as many men are not, what is necessary." (Explorers of Gor, p.243)

14. "It is he who must be a stranger to all men, and to whom all men must be strangers." (Explorers of Gor, p.243)

15. "But let us not look into their eyes too closely, for we might see there that which sets them apart from us." (Explorers of Gor, p.243)

16. "The throne indeed is a lonely country. Many men desire to live there but few could bear its burden." (Explorers of Gor, p.243)

17. "Ubars seldom see much point in engaging in single combat with common soldiers." (Explorers of Gor, p.428)

18. "...,you are not of sufficient political importance to warrant a duel with a Ubar." (Explorers of Gor, p.428)

19. "To an Ubar, a friend is precious as they have so few." (Explorers of Gor, p.446)



Assassin Quotes

1. "Scormus would play like an Assassin. He would be merciless, and he would take no chances." (Beasts of Gor, p.88)

2. "…the sword of the warrior is pledged to a Home Stone, the assassin to gold and the knife." (Beasts of Gor, p.136)

3. "…reminded me of men of the caste of Assassins, as they sometimes are, before they begin their hunt. The edge must be sharp, the resolve must be merciless, the instinct to kill must in no way be blunted." (Beasts of Gor, p.86)

4. "The Assassin is like a musician, a surgeon. The Warrior is a butcher, a ravaging, bloodthirsty lout." (Beasts of Gor, p.413)

5. "Assassins are arid fellows and Warriors are more genial and enthusiastic." (Beasts of Gor, p.413)

6. "An Assassin goes in and does his job, and comes out quietly. Warriors storm buildings and burn towers." (Beasts of Gor, p.413)

7. "More than one triumph in a Gorean city has been spoiled by the bolt of an assassin." (Magicians of Gor, p.90)
8. “Why Assassins,” asked the pit master. “Why those of the black caste?” “Efficiency, anonymity.” Said the officer.” (Witness of Gor, p.547)

9. “The men in the black tunics who had remained overnight in the quarters of the pit master, including their leader and his lieutenant, seemed to me strange fellows. They were much unlike many, if not most, of the men of this world. They did not laugh, they did not joke, they did not tell stories. They were silent, frightening, terrible men. I do not think they had Home Stones. If they had some loyalty, and I do not doubt they did, I think it was rather to some bloody oath, or dark covenant, or even to a leader. They attended to their equipment, they sharpened their swords. They drank only water. They ate sparingly. The hospitality of the pit master, offering us to them, was declined. Even the women chained at the wall were not touched.” (Witness of Gor, p.550)

10. “Glory to the black caste!” (Witness of Gor, p.566

"Alars, incidentally, are renowned for their capacity to wreak havoc, conduct massacres, chop off heads, and such, and then get a good night's sleep afterwards." (Mercenaries of Gor, p.125)

"It must learn to endure wounds before it receives the nourishment of milk." (Mercenaries of Gor, p.47)

"It is apparently one of the socially stabilizing forces on Gor. It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions. The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts the survival and maintenance of which are important to a superior civilization." (Dancer of Gor, p.186-7)

A Peasant is seen as "…being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant and superstitious, venal and vicious, a grubber in the dirt, a plodding animal, an ill-tempered beast, something at best cunning and treacherous;" (Raiders of Gor, p.3

"Neither a plow, nor a bosk, nor a girl may one man take from another, saving with the owner's saying of it,.." (Slave Girl of Gor, p.226

A Singer or Poets is considered "…a craftsman who make strong sayings,…" (Outlaw of Gor, p.103

A handful of bread for a song" is a traditional invitation extended to Singers and Poets. (Outlaw of Gor, p.104

He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death, lest they should forget that they are men." (Outlaw of Gor, p.104

This ingenuousness is doubtless dependent upon several factors, such as the primitiveness of the world, the isolation and uniqueness of cities, the disparateness of cultures and the tenuousness of communication." (Magicians of Gor, p.254

The religious conditioning of the men of Gor, based on superstition though it might be, was as powerful as a set of chains-more powerful than chains because they did not realize it existed. They feared the word, the curse, of this old man without weapons more than they would have feared the massed swords of a thousand foemen." (Tarnsman of Gor, p.206

Occasionally on Gor we destroy a city, selecting it by means of a random selection device. This teaches the lower orders the might of Priest-Kings and encourages them to keep our laws."
"But what if the city has done no wrong?" I asked.
"So much the better," said Misk, "for the Men below the Mountains are then confused and fear us even more--but the members of the Caste of Initiates, we have found, will produce an explanation of why the city was destroyed. They invent one and if it seems plausible they soon believe it." (Priest Kings of Gor, p.123

"In the legends of others, they appear as blond giants, breathing fire, shattering doors, giants taller than trees, with pointed ears and eyes like fire and hands like great claws and hooks; they are seen as savages, as barbarians, as beasts blood-thirsty and mad with killing, with braided hair, clad in furs and leather, with bare chests, with great axes which, at a single stroke, can fell a tree or cut a man in two." (Hunters of Gor, p.257)

Moreover, the Gorean culture tends, for better or worse, to be male oriented and male dominated, …" (Assassin of Gor, p.134

The morality of Earth, from the Gorean point of view, is a morality which would be viewed as more appropriate to slaves than free men. It would be seen in terms of the envy and resentment of inferiors for their superiors. It lays great stress on equalities and being humble and being pleasant and avoiding friction and being ingratiating and small. It is a morality in the best interest of slaves, who would be only too eager to be regarded as the equals of others. We are all the same. That is the hope of slaves; that is what it is in their interest to convince others of. The Gorean morality on the other hand is more one of inequalities, based on the assumption that individuals are not the same, but quite different in many ways. It might be said to be, though this is oversimple, a morality of masters." (Marauders of Gor, p.8

…generally refers to all of the subterranean retention facilities in the house of a slaver, not simply cages, but pits, steel drums, wall chains and such; it is the name of an area, on the whole, rather than a literal description of the nature of the only sort of security devices found there." (Assassin of Gor, p.122

"…females locked in Gorean iron do not escape." (Players of Gor, p.214

"The accoutrements of the stimulation-cell are also calculated with respect to their effect on the slave. There are brushes, perfumes, cosmetics, slave jewelries, heavy necklaces, armlets, bracelets and bangles; there is no clothing; there are also cushions, bowls of copper and lamps of brass. Importantly, there are also surfaces of various textures, a deep-piled rug, satins, silks, coarsely woven kaiila-hair cloths, brocades, rep-cloth, a tiled corner, a sleen pelt, cloths woven of strung beads, cloaks of leather, mats of reeds, etc." (Tribesman of Gor, p.24)

"The point of this is that the senses and body of the slave, stripped save for brand and collar, and whatever perfumes, cosmetics or jewelries she may wear under the instruction of her trainer, are being taught to be alive, to sense and feel with great sensitivity; the senses and skins of many human beings, in effect, are dead, instead of being alert and alive to hundreds of subtle differences in, say, atmospheres, temperatures, humidities, surfaces, etc. A girl with living senses and a living body, of course, is far more passionate than one whose senses and body sleep. The skin itself, in a trained girl, becomes an extensive, glorious, marvelously subtle sensory organ. Every bit of the slave, if she is well trained, is alive." (Tribesman of Gor, p.24-5)