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"There is gold, and steel, power, and the bodies of women . . . and sometimes . . . a thing called Honor." -- T.C.

"Do you know, Tarnsman," he asked, "that there is no justice without the sword?" He smiled down on me grimly. "This is a terrible truth," he said, "and so consider it carefully." He paused. "Without this," he said, touching the blade, "there is nothing-- no justice, no civilization, no society, no community, no peace. Without the sword there is nothing."

"By what right," I challenged, "is it the sword of Marlenus that brings justice to Gor?"

"You do not understand," said Marlenus. "Right itself-- that right of which you speak so reverently-- owes its very existence to the sword."

"I think that is false," I said. "I hope it is false." I shifted, even with that small movement irritating the whip cuts on my back.

Marlenus was patient. "Before the sword," he said, "there is no right, no wrong, only fact-- a world of what is and what is not, rather than a world of what should be and should not be. There is no justice until the sword creates it, establishes it, guarantees it, gives it substance and significance." He lifted the weapon, wielding the heavy metal blade as though it were a straw.

"First the sword," he said, "then government-- then law-- then justice."

--Tarnsman of Gor p. 155

'Do not harm him,' said Kazrak. 'He is my sword brother, Tarl of Bristol.' Kazrak's remark was in accord with the strange warrior codes of Gor, codes which were as natural to him as the air he breathed, and codes which I, in the Chamber of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, had sworn to uphold. One who has shed your blood, or whose blood you have shed, becomes your sword brother, unless you formally repudiate the blood on your weapons. It is part of the kinship of Gorean warriors regardless of what city it is to which they owe their allegiance. It is a matter of caste, an expression of respect for those who share their station and profession, having nothing to do with cities or Home Stones.

--Tarnsman of Gor p. 119

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.

--Outlaw of Gor p. 53

Gor, based on the Novels of John Norman

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