504 Quotes by Jack London

She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more.

Merely because you have got something to say that may be of interest to others does not free you from making all due effort to express that something in the best possible medium and form."[Letter to Max E. Feckler, Oct. 26, 1914]

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.

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

Wherever a man of vigour and stature manages to grow up, he is haled forthwith into the army. A soldier, as Bernard Shaw has said, 'ostensibly a heroic and patriotic defender of his country, is really an unfortunate man driven by destitution to offer himself as food for powder for the sake of regular rations, shelter, and clothing.

He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.

…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.