Jack London - Law Quotes

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Here was neither peace, nor rest, nor a moment's safety. All was confusion and action, and every moment life and limb were in peril. There was imperative need to be constantly alert, for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them, who knew no law but the law of club and fang.

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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

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Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.

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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

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It obeyed no known laws of physics, and overthrew the hoary axiom that like things performed to like things produce like results.

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