Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by John Norman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer John Norman.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
John Norman

John Frederick Lange Jr. is an American writer who, as John Norman, has authored the Gor series of science fantasy novels. Norman is also a philosophy professor.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
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.
The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her. — © John Norman
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.
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
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.
The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.
It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.
Producing is important because if there is no one making the tunes, there is nothing for the DJs to play, and nothing for the people to dance to.
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.
Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own.
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