The Scarlet Plague Quotes

“The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“It was what should have been a bright summer day, but the smoke
from the burning world filled the sky, through which the sun shone
murkily, a dull and lifeless orb, blood-red and ominous.”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“من أفواه حفنة من الأطفال خرجت حكمة كل الأزمنة؛ البعض سوف يقاتل .. والبعض سوف يحكم .. والبعض سوف يصلى .. أما الباقون فسوف يتجرعون الكدح والمعاناة، وينزفون فوق جثثهم، مرة تلو مرة بلا نهاية .. يا جمال الدولة المتحضرة المدهش !”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“And after all, what did it matter? Everybody died anyway, the good and the bad, the efficients and the weaklings, those that loved to live and those that scorned to live. They passed. Everything passed.”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“El universo ha sido aniquilado, conmocionado hasta su destrucción; pero el hombre sigue siendo el mismo...”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“Such words he spoke, but they are not his words. He was a vulgar, low-minded man, and vile oaths fell continually from his lips.”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.”
― Jack London , The Scarlet Plague

“—Bill—that was it; Bill, the Chauffeur. That was his name. He was a wretched, primitive man, wholly devoid of the finer instincts and chivalrous promptings of a cultured soul. No, there is no absolute justice, for to him fell that wonder of womanhood, Vesta Van Warden. The grievous-ness of this you will never understand, my grandsons; for you are yourselves primitive little savages, unaware of aught else but savagery. Why”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“He was a violent, unjust man. Why the plague germs spared him I can never understand. It would seem, in spite of our old metaphysical notions about absolute justice, that there is no justice in the universe. Why did he live?—an iniquitous, moral monster, a blot on the face of nature, a cruel, relentless, bestial cheat as well. All”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“The fleeting systems lapse like foam,'" he mumbled what was evidently a quotation. "That's it—foam, and fleeting. All man's toil upon the planet was just so much foam. He domesticated the serviceable animals, destroyed the hostile ones, and cleared the land of its wild vegetation. And then he passed, and the flood of primordial life rolled back again, sweeping his handiwork away—the weeds and the forest inundated his fields, the beasts of prey swept over his flocks, and now there are wolves on the Cliff House beach." He was appalled by the thought. "Where four million people disported themselves, the wild wolves roam to-day, and the savage progeny of our loins, with prehistoric weapons, defend themselves against the fanged despoilers. Think of it! And all because of the Scarlet Death—”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“Llegará el día en que los hombres, menos absortos en las necesidades de su vida material, aprendan de nuevo a leer.”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague

“— А что такое о б р а з о в а н и е? — спросил Эдвин.
— Это когда красное называют алым, — насмешливо ввернул Заячья Губа и снова принялся за старика.”
― Jack London, The Scarlet Plague