George Orwell quotes about justice & the law

So long as schools are run primarily for money, things like this will happen.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.

It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.

I will work harder!

Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?

No European cares anything about proofs. When a man has a black face, suspicion is proof.

The official holds the Burman down while the businessman goes through his pockets.

If my standing iss good, they will not believe it of me; if bad, they will believe it. Prestige iss all.

One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dali is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being.

And yet even the best wall in the world deserves to be pulled down if it surrounds a concentration camp.

If men would behave decently the world would be decent.

…the events of 1941 do not convict Wodehouse of anything worse than stupidity.

So great is the difference between two sets of initials!

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

Libel settles nothing.

Smillie's death is not a thing I can easily forgive.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Goering's bombing planes.

It will shoot traitors, but it will give them a solemn trial beforehand and occasionally it will acquit them.