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Quotes From the Gor Books
by John Norman
Men
These quotes are specifically to do with Gorean men, their mindset, behaviours
and how they are perceived by others.
Pertaining to Men
"Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often
strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will
be an easy one. She will almost never encounter sadism or wanton cruelty,
for the psychological environment that tends to breed these diseases is largely
absent from Gor. This does not mean that she will not expect to be beaten
if she disobeys, or fails to please her master."
Page 54 - Outlaw of Gor
"Paradoxically, the Gorean, who seems to think so little of women in
some respects, celebrates them extravagantly in others. The Gorean is extremely
sensitive to beauty; it gladdens his heart, and his songs and art are often
paeans to its glory."
Page 54 - Outlaw of Gor
"It is said that he whose lips have never touched those of a slave girl
does not know, truly, what it is to hold a woman in his arms."
Page 438 - Beasts of Gor
"He looked on her intently. He studied her. He gave her great attention. She turned her head to one side, her wrists secured in many turns of the binding fiber, her fists clenched....on earth many men did not even know their wives...Never, truly had they seen them. But a Gorean Master will know every inch, and care for every inch, of one of his slave girls. He will know every hair, every sweet blemish of her. In a way she is nothing to him, for she is only a slave. But in another way she is very important to him. She is one of his women. He will know her. He will want to know her completely, every inch of her body, every inch of her mind. Nothing less will satisfy him. She is his property. He will choose to know his property thoroughly."
Page 145 - Hunters of Gor
"What he said did not surprise me. The Gorean Master, commonly, likes
a spirited girl, one who fights the whip and collar, resisting until the last,
perhaps months later, she is overwhelmed and must acknowledge herself his,
utterly and without reservation, then fearing only that he might tire of her
and sell her to another."
Page 29 - Nomads of Gor
"I knew before," she said, "that I was truly your slave but
I did not know until now that you were truly my master." She looked up
at me, shaken. "It is a strange feeling," she said, "to know
that someone-truly-is you master, to know that not only has he the right to
do with you as he pleases but that he will, that your will is nothing to him,
that it is your will and not his that must bend, that you are helpless and
must-and will-do what he says, that you must obey."
Page 203 - 204 - Priest Kings of Gor
"The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her."
Page 145 - Beasts of Gor
"He suddenly snapped his fingers and, in the swift double gesture of a Gorean Master, pointed to a place on the dirt floor before him, almost simultaneously turning his hand, spreading his first and index finger, pointing downwards. I fled to him and knelt before him, my knees in the dirt, in the position of the pleasure slave, my head down, trembling."
Page 143 - Captive of Gor
"Yes," I said, "once long ago, in the delta of the Vosk, I
lost my honor. I know that never can I find it again. That honor, which was
to me my most precious possession, was lost. It is gone, and gone forever.
It is like a tarn with wings of gold, that sits but once upon a warrior"s
helm, and when it departs, it returns no more. It is gone, and gone forever."
I looked at them, and looked, too, upward at the stars of the Gorean night.
They were beautiful, like points of fire, marking the camps of the armies
of the night. `Yes," I said, again regarding the men of Tyros, `I have
lost my honor, but you must not understand by that I have forgotten it. On
some nights, on such a night as this, sometimes, I recollect it."
Page 275 - 276 - Hunters of Gor
"These girls may be exchanged among the men, but commonly they are not.
Most masters are rather possessive about their slaves, particularly if they
are fond of them."
Page 209 - Guardsman of Gor
"One of the pleasant things about owning a slave," I said, "is
the opportunity to converse with her, to listen to her, to hear her express
herself, her feelings and ideas. One can learn much from a slave. Many slaves,
like yourself, are highly intelligent. They can express themselves articulately,
clearly, trenchantly, and lyrically. It is a great pleasure to talk with them.
Then when one wishes," I said, "one puts them again on their knees."
Page 203 - Beasts of Gor
"In the North my blood had found itself, learning itself; in the north
I had learned strength, and how to stand alone. I thought of the Kurri. They
were terrible foes. Suddenly, incredibly, I felt love for them. I recollected
the head of the giant Kur, mounted on its stake, in the ruins of the hall
of Svein Blue Tooth. One cannot be weak who meets such beasts. I laughed at
the weakness instilled into the men of earth. Only men who are strong, without
weakness, can meet such Beasts. One must match them in strength, in intellect,
in terribleness, in ferocity. In the north I had grown strong. 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."
Page 290 - Marauders of Gor
"They are different men. They are not earthlings. They are Goreans. They
are strong, they are hard, and they will conquer you. For a man of earth,
you might never be a woman. For a man of Gor, I assure you, my dear, sooner
or later you will be."
Page 12 - Tribesmen of Gor
"It is not uncommon for masters to pride themselves on the depth with
which they know their slave girls; this depth is far greater in my opinion
than that with which the average husband of Earth knows his wife; the slave
girl is not simply someone with whom the man lives; she is very special to
him; she is a treasured possession; he owns her; he wants to know profoundly
and deeply, the background, history, the mind, the intelligence, the appetites,
the nature and dispositions of his lovely article of property; this knowledge,
of course, puts her more at his mercy; by making it possible for him to manipulate
her feelings, exploit weaknesses, drop asides, etc., she in the helpless condition
of slavery, it gives him greater power over her.
For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length
and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating
on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked and collared,
on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, to write
them out; this supplies the master, of course, with abundant materials which
may be used by him to make her further and more helplessly his; sometimes
the girl attempts to deceive the master; it is not difficult to detect in
authenticity in such matters; she is then beaten; too, she may be at times
ordered to invent fantasies, sometimes of a certain type; these, too, for
she has invented them, are, to an astute master, instructive; these intellectual,
emotional exercises, performed by the girl under the condition of slavery,
particularly if coupled with an enforced exercise regime, posing under male
surveillance, and such, can do much to sensitize her to her collar; they awaken
her body, and, of equal importance for the Gorean, though not for the Earthling,
who sees sex with the perception of a hippopotamus, as a matter of body rubbings,
her fantastic imagination and mind; she becomes curious, soon, about the deeper
implications of what she is, a mere article of her master's property; then,
with authority, with assurance and power, to the depth and height of her mind
and imagination she is taught; the slave girl experiences a paradox of freedom;
the free woman is physically free, but miserable, fighting to be what she
is not; the slave girl, physically in bondage, even to the collar, sometimes
chains, is given no choice by men but to be totally and precisely what she
is, slave; such women, slaves, interestingly, are almost always joyful and
vital; they are paradoxically, in their feelings and emotions, liberated;
they are not pinched, not psychologically restrained; why this should be I
do not know; to see such women , their heads held high, their eyes bright,
their bodies , movements, beautiful, as no earth woman would dare to be, is
quite pleasurable; some of them are so insolent, so proud of their collars,
that I have cuffed them to my feet, to remind them that they are only slaves."
Page 42 - 43 - Tribesmen of Gor
"He is strong enough, if I don't please him, to lash me."
Page 141 - Tribesmen of Gor
"How beautiful I must look to him, I thought. And I had sensed his incredible
maleness, the animal maleness of him, so different from the thwarted, crippled
sexuality so commended and tragically endemic among the males of Earth. For
the first time in my life I felt I understood what might be the meaning of
the expression "male," and as I lay before him, too, dimly, it frightening
me, what might be the meaning of the expression "female." How beautiful,
I thought, I must look to him, lying bound, totally vulnerable, helpless at
his feet. How such a sight must stir the splendor of his manhood, to see the
female, his, caught, helpless at his feet, his to do with in lust and pleasure,
and joy, as he pleased, helpless to escape him, free for him to work his will
upon her!"
Page 27 - Slave Girl of Gor
"More than one master, I suspect, has been enslaved by the beauty who
kneels before him. It is one of the excruciating delights of the mastery to
expose oneself fully to, and yet skirt, the dangers of the girl"s beauty,
to keep oneself strong, to draw the absolute fullness of pleasure from her,
and yet to resist her wiles, to get everything from her, and yet to keep her
on her knees, completely."
Page 36 - Slave Girl of Gor
"Gorean men have a way of looking at women which is like stripping them
and putting them to their feet."
Page 267- Slave Girl of Gor
"Gorean men," I said, "you will learn, are less tolerant of
pretense than the men of Earth."
Page 202 - Beasts of Gor
"Goreans are not men of Earth," I said. "They will have what
they truly want from a woman, everything."
Page 230 - Beasts of Gor
"You are a slave," I said. "You are owned. You are a female.
You will be forced to be a woman. If you were free, and Gorean, you might
be permitted by men to remain as you are, but you are neither Gorean nor free.
The Gorean man will accept no compromise on your femininity, not from a slave.
She will be what he wishes, and that is a woman, fully, and his.
If necessary you will be whipped or starved. You may fight your master. He will, if he wishes, permit this, to prolong the sport of your conquest, but in the end, it is you who are the slave; it is you who will lose. On Earth you had the society at your back, the result of centuries of feminization; he could not so much as speak harshly to you but you could rush away or summon magistrates; here, however, society is not at your back, but at his; it will abet him in his wishes, for you are only a slave; you will have no one to call, nowhere to run; you will be alone with him, and at his mercy.
Further, he has not been conditioned with counterinstinctual value sets, programmed with guilt, taught self-hatred; he has been taught pride and has, in the very air he breathes, imbibed the mastery of females. These are different men. They are not Earthlings. They are Goreans. They are strong, and they are hard, and they will conquer you. For a man of Earth, you might never be a woman. For a man of Gor, I assure you, my dear, sooner or later you will be."
Page 12 - Tribesman of Gor
"It is a beautiful moment when the woman realizes that the man who owns
her is her love master, and the man realizes that the girl he bought, looking
up at him, tears in her eyes, is his love slave. Then the only danger is that
he will weaken. One must be strong with a love slave. If one truly loves her,
he will be that strong. The slavery in which a love slave is kept is an unusually
deep slavery."
Page 236 - Beasts of Gor
"An interesting contrast here is the Gorean master/slave relationship.
Men tend to be extremely interested in things they own, and tend, usually,
to be quite fond of them. Owned women do not form an exception to this general
rule. Owned women do not form an exception to this general rule. The slave
girl is commonly desired and prized by her master; she is one of his treasures.
The Gorean master, interested in her and attentive to her, wants to know everything
about her, in her emotions and feelings, in their feminine, lyrical detail.
Conversing with a lovely slave is one of the many pleasures of owning her.
It is almost impossible for a girl to keep her thoughts or feelings from her
master. He knows her too well."
Page 99 - Fighting Slave of Gor
"In short we shall suppose that he discovers that he has purchased as
is often the case not a mere slave, but a treasure. And she belongs to him!
What a fortune, and joy, to own such a woman! He will want to watch her, to
observe her least movement, to know her smallest thought. He will want to
talk with her and listen to her, and know her with a depth and fullness far
beyond anything that might be accorded to a mere contractual partner. She
is not merely a person who is living with him. She belongs to him, literally,
and he prizes her. But he will take care to be strict with her."
Page 186 - Guardsman of Gor
"The most fundamental property prized by Goreans in women, I suppose,
though little is said about it, is her need for love, and her capacity for
love. How much does she need love? And how deep and loving is she? That is
the kind of woman a man wants, ultimately, one who is helplessly and totally
love"s captive, in his collar."
Page 322 - Mercenaries of Gor
"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."
Page 51 - Magicians of Gor
"It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within
the bonds of an excellent mastery."
Page 465 - Magicians of Gor
"I feared she might release in me things which I feared to understand,
because I feared she might release in me something proud and savage, something
which would be a stranger to apologies and pretenses, something long-forgotten
and mighty, something which had been bred in caves and the hunt, something
which might be called man."
Page 111- Fighting Slave of Gor
"I knew, from my own experience, that nothing fulfills maleness like mastery. He who would be a man must be a master. He who surrenders his mastery surrenders his manhood. I wondered what those who flocked like sheep to their own castration received in recompense for their manhood. I supposed it must be very valuable. But if this were so, why did they feel it necessary to shrill so petulantly at others, those who scorned them and had chosen different paths?"
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