The Sea Wolf Quotes.

11. "He was not immoral, but merely unmoral."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

12. "You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the other men, and who eat the food the other men get and would like to eat themselves. You wear the warm clothes. They made the clothes, but they shiver in rags and ask you, the lawyer, or business agent who handles your money, for a job. 'But that is beside the matter,' I cried. Not at all. It is piggishness and it is life. Of what use or sense is an immortality of piggishness? What is the end? What is it all about? You have made no food. Yet the food you have eaten or wasted might have saved the lives of a score of wretches who made the food but did not eat it. What immortal end did you serve? Or did they?"
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

13. "I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you." Capt. Wolf Larsen"
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

14. "Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

15. "Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

16. "He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

17. "Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since it is a necessity prejudiced in its own favor. ...There is plenty more life demanding to be born. ...He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

18. "I wandered all these years among A world of women, seeking you."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

19. "A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf

20. "He led a lost cause, and he was not afraid of God's thunderbolts........hurled into hell, he was unbeaten. A third of God's angels he had led with him, and straightaway he incited man to rebel against God, and gained for himself and hell a major portion of all the generations of man. Why was he beaten out of heaven? Because he was less brave than God? less proud? less aspiring? No! A thousand times no! God was more powerful, as he said, Whom thunder had made greater. But Lucifer was a free spirit. To serve was to suffocate. He preferred suffering in freedom to all the happiness of comfortable servility. He did not care to serve God. He cared to serve nothing. He was no figurehead. He stood on his own legs. He was an individual."
- Jack London, The Sea Wolf