Men Quotes by Jack London

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

— Jack London

“I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.”

— Jack London

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

— Jack London

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

— Jack London

A man with a club is a law-maker.

— Jack London

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

— Jack London

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to…

— Jack London

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

— Jack London

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

— Jack London

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

— Jack London

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

— Jack London

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling…

— Jack London

Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts,…

— Jack London

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears…

— Jack London

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs…

— 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…

— Jack London

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference…

— Jack London

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is…

— Jack London

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if…

— Jack London

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could…

— Jack London

Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the…

— Jack London

...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands…

— Jack London

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of…

— Jack London

On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered…

— Jack London

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes…

— Jack London

Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow…

— Jack London

The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination,…

— Jack London

You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live…

— Jack London

There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten…

— Jack London

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it…

— Jack London

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only…

— Jack London

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with…

— Jack London

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure,…

— Jack London

As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present…

— Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it…

— Jack London

The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It…

— Jack London

Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein…

— Jack London