This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.