The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
JACK LONDONWhite Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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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.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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