# Jack London - Quotes: 70 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london ## Books - [John Barleycorn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/john-barleycorn.md) — 5 quotes - [Martin Eden](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/martin-eden.md) — 5 quotes - [The Call of the Wild](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/the-call-of-the-wild.md) — 4 quotes - [The Iron Heel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/the-iron-heel.md) — 2 quotes - [The Sea Wolf](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/the-sea-wolf.md) — 15 quotes - [White Fang](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang.md) — 39 quotes ## Recently added quotes > He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not been helped any by the moulding he had received at the hands of society. The hands of society are harsh, and this man was a striking sample of its handiwork. He was a beast. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/he-was-a-ferocious.md) > They were his environment, these men, and they were moulding the clay of him into a more ferocious thing than had been intended by Nature. Nevertheless, Nature had given him plasticity. Where many another animal would have died or had its spirit broken, he adjusted himself and lived, and at no expense of the spirit. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/they-were-his.md) > The bulldog's method was to hold what he had, and when opportunity favored to work in for more. Opportunity favored when White Fang remained quiet. When White Fang struggled, Cherokee was content merely to hold on." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/the-bulldogs-method.md) > He did not want to bite the hand, and he endured the peril of it until his instinct surged up in him, mastering him with its insatiable yearning for life. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/he-did-not.md) > But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/but-it-did.md) > And so, fresh from the soft southern world, these dogs, trotting down the gang-plank and out upon the Yukon shore, had but to see White Fang to experience the irresistible impulse to rush upon him and destroy him. They might be town-reared dogs, but the instinctive fear of the Wild was theirs just the same. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/and-so-fresh.md) > White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/white-fang-knew.md) > This was a female of his kind, and it was a law of his kind that the males must not fight the females. He did not know anything about this law, for it was no generalization of the mind, not a something acquired by experience in the world. He knew it as a secret prompting, as an urge of instinct - of the same instinct that made him howl at the moon and starts of nights and that made him fear death and the unknown. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/this-was-a-female.md) > The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after him, pressing more closely against him. Shrinking, almost shivering. He still managed to hold himself together. It was a torment, this hand that touched him and violated his instinct. He could not forget in a day all the evil that had been wrought him at the hands of men. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/the-hand-descended.md) > They were firemakers! They were gods! [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/they-were-firemakers.md) > His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/his-bondage-had.md) > Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him; and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/white-fang/out-of-this.md)