White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
JACK LONDONI would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
JACK LONDONA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
JACK LONDONThe function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDONLove cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.
JACK LONDONOne cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONThe word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDONTo be able to forget means sanity.
JACK LONDONStrength is an empty shell.
JACK LONDONMercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
JACK LONDONShe was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
JACK LONDONThe greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
JACK LONDONAge is never so old as youth would measure it.
JACK LONDONThe scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
JACK LONDONThe Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
JACK LONDONAlcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
JACK LONDON