After the dark I shall live again, and there will be women. The future holds the little women for me in the lives I am yet to live. And though the st… - Jack London

Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.

On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence. It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of deep water affect the body of the diver. It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree. It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.