Year: 2016

“A good max­im to keep in mind is that if it isn’t beau­ti­ful, it isn’t Gorean.”

- John Norman, after­word in ‘Witness of Gor’

“Truth not won is not pos­sessed. We are not enti­tled to truths for which we have not fought.”

- John Norman, Marauders of Gor, Daw page 7

“Suppose that a woman, like a man, has buried instincts, of which they may not even become aware, but these instincts lie with­in them, dis­po­si­tions to respond, dis­po­si­tions locked into the very genet­ic codes of her being, instincts await­ing only the prop­er stim­u­lus sit­u­a­tion to be elicit­ed and emerge,overpoweringly, irre­sistably, sweep­ing her, per­haps to her aston­ish­ment and hor­ror, in a bio­log­i­cal flood to her des­tiny, a des­tiny once trig­gered as incon­tro­vert­ible and uncon­trol­lable as the secre­tion of her glands and the mad beat­ing of her heart.”
— John Norman, Captive of Gor, DAW page 264

“Now, with weapons and courage, per­haps for the first time, 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.”
— John Norman, Raiders of Gor, DAW page 301

“Many Earth moral­i­ties encour­age res­ig­na­tion and accom­mo­da­tion; Gorean moral­i­ty is bent more toward con­quest and defi­ance; many Earth moral­i­ties encour­age ten­der­ness, pity and gen­tle­ness, sweet­ness; Gorean moral­i­ty encour­ages hon­our, courage, hard­ness and strength. To Gorean moral­i­ty, many Earth moral­i­ties might ask, ‘Why so hard?’. To these Earth moral­i­ties, the Gorean ethos might ask, ‘Why so soft?’ ”
— Marauders of Gor, DAW page 8