A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
– Jack London
Related Quotes:
- If you don’t know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker! – Israelmore Ayivor
- London, London, London town,You can toughen up or get thrown around. – Kano
- We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today. – Sarah Addison Allen
- The first rule of book club – is that nobody wants to talk about book club. – Douglas Lewis
- First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club. – Cynthia Hand
- Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way. – Andrew Peterson
- Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. – Jack London
- With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson – Jack Nicholson
- It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line. – Kenneth Eade
- The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London
- I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist. – Jack London
- Then our crime’s worse than a murderer’s. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law. – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe. – Lenore Kandel
- Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. -˜Time to die, old man,’ he said. – Steven Ramirez
- He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. – Jack London
- Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden. – Jack London
- Beauty is the only master to serve. – Jack London
- Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value. – Jack London
- Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway. – Jack London
- The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. – Jack London
- There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them. – Jack London
- Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. – Jack London
- As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. – Jack London
- Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things. – Jack London
- The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck – Jack London
- It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life. – Jack London
- -¦and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred. – Jack London
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. – Henry Adams
- He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command – Niccol Machiavelli
- Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. – Francis Bacon
- The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. – Ayn Rand
- Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed. – AJ Quinnell
- Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Your Heart’s Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later. – Emmet Fox
- You make me crazy,- she muttered as she obeyed. -œLikewise,- he countered. – Codi Gary
- I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient. – Tehmina Durrani
- Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed. – Ken Follett
- The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker. – Kenneth Oakley
- I’m now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. – Jack Steinberger
- Aronson’s first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy. – Elliot Aronson