Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. — Jack London Copy Share Image
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. — Jack London Copy Share Image
I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging… — Jack London Copy Share Image
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe… — 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 creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be… — 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
