George Orwell Quotes

Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.

Rules are really weird things, aren't they? I feel like the more I do something, the more I see through rules. I see the reason to ignore it, but at the same time, "That's why they made that rule!"

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules.

Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

I wasn't a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Anything done [in politics] is all right unless you get caught.

If they chased every man or woman out of this town who has shacked up with somebody else or got drunk, there wouldn't be any government left in Washington.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

I was a pretty good kid, but I also knew when it was worth breaking the rules. I don't think that makes you a rebel, though, because that's still exercising some type of caution.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

Gotta know the rules to break the rules.

I don't take well to rules.

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.