Jack London Quotes

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

A man with a club is a law-maker.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

Strength is an empty shell.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

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