Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. — Jack London Copy Share Image
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated… — Jack London Copy Share Image
For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It… — Jack London Copy Share Image
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal… — Jack London Copy Share Image
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But, - and there it is, - we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens… — Jack London Copy Share Image
But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Here am I, a little animal called a man--a bit of vitalized matter, one hundred and sixty-five pounds of meat and blood,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“And all the while the four men lay beside me and watched and made no move. Nor did I move, and without shame I… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat. — Jack London Copy Share Image
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
