One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
JACK LONDONSocialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
More Jack London Quotes
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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Love 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.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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