Wisdom decrees that the fruit of thought must not be planted where it cannot bear fruit.

Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live , they can not tell you ; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows , he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live , do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.

"It is said," said Samos, "that only weaklings, and fools, and men who deserve to be slave girls, fall slave to women.

Whereas I was of high caste and he was of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone.

Then as sleen hunters do for luck , I cut through the fur of the sleen and ate the heart. It is said that only the heart of the mountain larl brings more luck then that of the vicious, cunning sleen.

Gorean saying by slave girls: "It is not yet time to serve the wine" It means that the time for the slave to serve the Master's sexual pleasure has not yet arrived, usually used during feasts when a girl is slotted to other duties, such as serving food or a large group.

With weapons and courage. they were truly free men, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate."

In a man's hut, he must be Master, even though he has selected out for himself a companion. It is the part of the companion to befriend and aid him, not to insult and drive him.

I wonder who truly loves himself, and women, he who is true to himself and his nature, refusing to deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, and who fulfills women, as they really are, or he who betrays himself, who lies to himself and who denies the true needs of women?

Be beautiful. Be only afraid that you are so superb, not so afraid that you are awkward or clumsy.

"The Masters call us "slave meat", and such, and perhaps this amuses them, and helps keep us in our place, at their feet, but only a woman who is a fool believes them. They want, and own, the whole slave" - a slave girl

The husk of a she-sleen can be torn away, never to grow again, leaving behind only the soft flesh of another slave.

While Free Women, technically, are priceless, they are usually, in bed, worthless. They are not worthy of kneeling and humbly holding candles within a thousand pasangs of a slave.

Many Gorean men, in their vanity, will not admit to caring for slaves. Even the thought of it, it seems, would embarrass them. Who would care for a meaningless slut in a collar? Yet, too often, for just such women, luscious and helpless, and in bondage, men are prepared to kill. Indeed, more than one war on Gor has been fought to recover a single slave.

"What does a slave owe a Master?" he asked. "Everything, and then a thousand times more," she whispered

If a command needs to be repeated, the kajir needs to be punished

"Men had done much to me on Gor. They had, imperiously, for their amusement and pleasure, summoned forth from me my latent slavery, a slavery which on Earth, I had hardly dared acknowledge. They had taught me how to feel. They had required that I show my slavery, and yield to it, wholly and honestly. They would let me be the slave that I was, lovingly and helplessly. I loved them for it!" - Tuka, slave dancer

Until one has seen needful slaves, one has not seen women

Never underestimate man's ingenuity in masterminding his own destruction

It is easy to reform a woman's character once she is in the collar

All women belong in the collars, for theirs is the slave sex.

The female slave, in her excitement and beauty, is an embodiment of sensuality, love, and service

All women are beautiful in chains

Wars have been fought to obtain the beautiful slaves of another city

One of the great pleasures in the Master, increasing the sense of it's joy and power, is forcing the female to experience, at your will and convenience, incredible pleasures, carrying her up and down, and through, a series of slave orgasms, making her more and more helpless, until she is irremediably yours, lost in the throes of her submission ecstacies.

If a man understands the priorities of his fellows, he can lead them. If he fails in this, all the good intentions in the world won't buy him loyalty.

War is the fire that tempers men's souls.

The man who will not resort to violence must find his own ways to manipulate men.

It is seldom wise to interfere in the relationship between a Master and his slave

The love of a slave girl is the deepest and most profound love that any woman can give a man. Love makes a woman a man's slave, and the wholeness of that love requires that she be, in truth, his slave. With nothing less can she be fully, and institutionally, content.

Beauty and intelligence are all well and good, but the best slave is she who loves the most deeply

In the end, few things are real, perhaps the weight and glitter of gold, the movement and nature of weapons, a slave at one's feet, and too, perhaps, in spite of all, if we will have it so, defiance, honour, responsibility, courage, discipline, such things, such baubles, such treasures.

But do not fear. I am certain, sooner or later, you will come into the possession of one who will not only accept your slavery, in it's beauty, in it's tenderness and needfulness, in it's honesty and truth, but will celebrate it and relish it, and for whom you will be a treasure, an incredible and marvelous treasure, to be sure, one to be kept under the closest of disciplines.

An errant slave may be disciplined by any Free Man Her slavery does not exist only in the presence of her Master. It is uncompromised, catagorical, and absolute, at any moment, wherever she is. Serious or grievious disciplines should be the prerogative of the Owning Master.

A Master is right until proven otherwise, and even then there is some question.

Nothing frustrates the True Warrior more than political necessity

One must beware of enemies, and the nobler they are, the more dangerous they are.

Many of the women of Cos are beautiful. We enjoy them in Port Kar.

The wholisticality of the female response is interesting. Their response is a whole, physical, emotional, and intellectual. Men have sex. Women are sex.

A woman's defenses are not steel, but such things are her helplessness and vulnerability, and her capacity to give astounding pleasure.

"I am afraid," she said "I will defend you, as I can," he said "Do not risk your life for me," she said "Why not?" he said "Because I am really only a slave girl, " she said "It is for such that men most cheerfully risk their lives," he said "Oh?" she said "Certainly," he said, "you would not expect them to go to all that trouble for a mere free female, would you?" "Monster," she said.

A Master to a slave-girl: "In your weakness and need, and love, in your honesty and truth, you are a thousand times stronger, and greater, than such caricatures of women, than such travesties of women, than such pseudomales and facsimile men, denying themselves and their feelings, holding themselves rigid, not daring to feel or be themselves."

The slave who lies about her slavery is not thereby the less a slave. It is only that she is then a lying slave.

Ritual is important. It is fulfilling and meaningful. It is beautiful. It is symbolic, mnemonic, and instructive. It establishes protocols. It expresses, defines, and clarifies conditions. It is essential to, and ingredient within, civilization. Similarly, do not overlook the significance and value of symbolism.

In the submission of a female slave to a Master, the slave submits to the principle of masculinity, embodied in him. In this submission, the female slave recognizes the rights of masculinity and fulfills herself by submitting her femininity to it.

Power without ethics is disaster, ethics without power is useless.

The key to strategy is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.

A retreating enemy should be allowed all the face he can carry off. Just don't let him carry off anything else.

Between a slave and a free person, only one can be the Master. It is the Gorean Way.

Nothing fulfills maleness like Mastery. He who would be a man, must be a Master. He who surrenders his Mastery, surrenders his manhood.

How should I put this delicately? Perhaps thusly; Insubordination in any form, of any sort, in even the tiniest, least significant degree, is not accepted from slave girls by their Gorean Masters.

A love slave is still a slave, you see, and perhaps more a slave than any other. She is held in her bondage by the strongest of all bonds, that of love.

The most fundamental property prized by Goreans in women is their need for love, and their capacity for love. That is the kind of woman a man wants, ultimately, one who is helplessly and totally love's captive, in his collar.

There are only two kinds of women; slaves, and slaves.

The relationship of the Master to the slave is unilateral. All the power is with the Master. The slave does not keep the Master, the Master keeps the slave. Let the slave strive, then for excellence, to convince the Master to keep her.

No two Masters are the same except in so far as each is the total Master, just as no two slaves are the same, except that each is the total slave.

she said, "It is a thousand times better to be the slave of a Gorean Master, than to be an Empress on Earth.

It is seldom wise to impugn, or attempt to manipulate, the honour of a Gorean.

There are two sexes. They are not the same.

The other side of the coin of freedom is bondage. One cannot exist without the other. The Master is free, and the slave is bound.

A Master is more likely to be kinder to an unskilled girl who is zealous, than to a skilled one who permits her performance to lapse from standards of perfection.

Any woman who dares to appear before men and dance, is in her heart, a slave. Let her then be collared!

Only a fool buys a clothed woman.

"Such thoughts are surely to be reserved for the Second or Third knowledges." "I am a man, I repudiate the distinctions between knowledges. Knowledge is one. It is only the knowers who are many."

"What is it that a man wants from a woman?", asked Samos "Everything, and more," she whispered "Precisely."

Your audacity borders on obscenity

It is not merely pleasant to own a slave, to dress her as you please, if you wish to permit her clothing, to have her at your bidding, to do with her as you please; it is exalting. The man who has not owned a slave has no conception of the maximums of sexuality, nor as the woman who has not been owned.

If slavery were truly a fate worse than death, or even so unfortunate a lot, it seems it would be very hard to understand the happiness of the female slave, their emotional fulfillments, their ecstasies, their willingness to die for their Masters.

Swords are often drawn on Gor over women, and particularly over women. Women are prizes, perfections and treasures. It is no wonder than men will fight over them with such ferocity.

The relationship of slave to Master is the relation of total helpless intimacy

Few men, once they have caught the scent of Mastery, and surely once they have tasted it's deliciousness, will even consider it's surrender.

There is no more constructive emotion than hatred

An uninspired ruler works to develop those relationships which will be most to his advantage. A great ruler determines the most desirable relationships and assumes them into being.

The laws of a city extend no further than it's walls

A man who is returning to his city is not to be detained

Port Kar, crowded and sensuous in the Tamber Gulf, before mysterious, gleaming Thassa

The experience is a totalistic one, which occurs in an entire context. It is thus that a woman does not fully understand what it is to be a slave, until she becomes a slave. Once she is owned, of course, and subject to the whip, she will learn her condition. Kneeling before her Master, she will soon apprehend something of it's joys, duties, and terrors.

Then she was trembling, and gasping for breath, clinging to him. He, too, gasped, and then suddenly he laughed, a mighty laugh, almost a roar, a laugh of triumph, like an exaltant larl, joyful in his Mastery of her beauty.

When Goreans get the idea that honour is involved, they sudden become quite difficult to deal with.

It is appropriate that a female slave be sexually alive, vital, and responsive. Surrender to your deepest needs, and desires, to your most profound and helpless passions, to those truths hitherto concealed in the most secret recesses of your body.

"But I am only a collared slave!" "And they are the most beautiful and exciting of all women. Wars have been fought for them."

There is only one way to have a woman wholly, and that is for her to be your slave, for you to own her.

"On the whole, if a slave is pleasing, and is striving to serve with perfection, I believe in treating her with kindness." - Tarl Cabot

Her price? Her price is steel.

Music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame and when men's hearts are aflame, it is not easy to know where the flames may spread.

A man can truly love only that woman who is truly his, who belongs to him. Otherwise, he is only a party to a contract.

"The collar is put on from without, but what it encircles comes from within. Slavery, true slavery, comes from within."

If one has never had a slave, one has never had a woman.

No female is a woman, who has not been made a slave.

One of the nicest gifts one can give a man is, of course, a beautiful woman

They all wear their collars, but each in her collar is different

The lovely figures of slave girls are not accidents, only Free Women are permitted to become unkempt or gross.

The Gorean Master desires more than a slave's submission, more than merely her body. A Gorean Master is satisfied with nothing less than all of a slave. He will possess you, body and mind, heart and soul. Nothing less is acceptable.

It is said that the women of Earth are natural slaves, awaiting only the touch of a Master

The chains of a slave girl are heaviest in Port Kar

You are a slave, you are too beautiful to be set free.

Within a given amount of time, say half an ahn, some women can resist some men. Given a longer amount of time, however, any woman may be made to yield, whether she wishes to or not, by any man.

If men refuse the mastery, someone else must assume it. There are always Masters, whether one pretends it is not so, or not.

A thousand times better a collar on Gor, than freedom on Earth - a slave girl

Much can be told of the responsiveness of a girl by how she moves beneath the whip.

If one is not strong, it is natural to make a virtue of weakness

Beauty in a slave does not excuse poor service

The slave 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.

Master: "What is the place of women?" slave: "At the feet of men" Master: "And where are you?" slave: "At Your feet!" Master: "What are you?" slave: "A slave"

Slaves are the most treasured, despised and loved of all women.

a slave.. "every women, in her heart, longs to kneel before a strong man, to be subject to His whip, to be owned, to be Mastered, to know that she has no choice but to give him total love and service."

Every women, in her deepest heart, wants to find a Man whom she must serve perfectly, a man who will bring out the fundamental and profound slave in her, a man who will bend her uncompromisingly and helplessly to His will.

Whipping, in itself, is insignificant when compared to the lesson it teaches. it teaches the girl that she is under the total domination of a man. it teaches her that she is at His mercy and is owned, truely.... The only women who does not fear the whip is one who has not felt it.

Chains are useful in impressing her slavery upon a woman.... the effect of a chain, or rope, on a woman's sexuality is sometimes incredible.

A slave is an animal, sensuous and beautiful, marked as property, and has a name only on the sufferance of her Master.... she kneels before her Master; she waits to be commanded.

She obeyed immediately and unhesitantly. Gorean slaves girls do not dally in their compliance.

The Master/slave relationship is the institutionalization of dominance and submission. It is, under the enhancements of civilization, the institutionalization of the primative biological relationship of the human male and female, He the Master, she the slave. How lonely is the man who has not yet found His slave; how forlorn is the slave who has not yet found her Master.

The life of a slave girl, it is understood, as a life of love. She is given no alternative.

Slavery brings out the female in a woman.

The slave girl is a lovely, vulnerable, highly sensitive organism; the rational Master commonly, unless she chooses to be troublesome, handles her with delicacy and affection

The slave's sexuality is imbedded in an entire matrix of obedience, love and service. In her heart these things are inextricably, and delicately and beautifully intertwined.

"And who is victorious?" he asked. "You are, Master," I said, "and totally, and I am nothing." I did not tell him that, truly, we were both victorious, that he was victorious in his victory, and I, a woman, was victorious in my utter defeat.

Every woman in her heart wants to wear the chains of a man.