Quotes from John Norman

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else's values. We must find our own.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else's values. We must find our own.

No man who has seen a woman in Pleasure Silk, or watched her dance, or heard the sound of a belled ankle or watched a woman's hair, unbound, fall to her waist can long live without the possession of such a delicious creature.

wished war to be a biologically selective process in which the weaker and slower perish and fail to reproduce themselves.

if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin.

It should be worth the Courage Scar," said Harold from above, "don't you think so?" "What?" I asked. "Stealing a wench from the House of Saphrar and returning on a stolen tarn." "Undoubtedly," I grumbled. I found myself wondering if the Tuchuks had an Idiocy Scar.

I would choose so to live that I might stand boldly with my deed without regret throughout eternity.

I have lived. Now there must be others.

It is said, in a Gorean proverb, that a man, in his heart, desires freedom, and that a woman, in her belly, yearns for love. The collar, in its way, answers both needs. The man is most free, owning the slave. He may do what he wishes with her. The woman, on the other hand, being owned, is institutionally and helplessly subject, in her status as slave, to the submissions of love.

Yes," she said, "we also wish to be free." She smiled. "In every woman," she said, "there is something of the Free Companion and something of the Slave Girl.

How many are there here who would die for this city? How many who would defend to the death its perimeters? How many who would submit to torture on its behalf?

themselves. I have wondered sometimes if a man, to be a man, must not master a woman and if a woman to be a woman must not know herself mastered.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

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.