Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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
-
-
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
JACK LONDON -
Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
JACK LONDON -
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
JACK LONDON -
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
JACK LONDON -
Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
JACK LONDON -
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
JACK LONDON -
I would rather be ashes than dust.
JACK LONDON -
He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
JACK LONDON -
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.
JACK LONDON -
The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
JACK LONDON -
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.
JACK LONDON -
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
JACK LONDON -
A man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDON -
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
JACK LONDON -
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
JACK LONDON