He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

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About Jack London

Portrait of Jack London

John Griffith London (né Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune...

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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

—Jack London in White Fang

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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

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The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

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He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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Punishment is directed primarily at the potentially guilty.

—Michel Foucault

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It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy,… or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit.

—Abbie Hoffman

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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.

Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

—Thomas Jefferson

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