Pastoral Resources

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Woman was God's second mistake.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

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

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.