Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak
to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits.
Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he
gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from
starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
Animal Farm
Major, Chapter 1. |
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
Animal Farm
Major, Chapter 1. |
THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.
Animal Farm
Chapter 2. |
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible
to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure,
now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves
and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
Animal Farm
Chapter 3. |
I will work harder!
Animal Farm
Boxer's motto, Chapter 3. |
FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD.
Animal Farm
Maxim devised by Snowball, Chapter 3. |
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism,
tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their
females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the
laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.
Animal Farm
Chapter 4. |
"I have no wish to take life, not even human life,"
repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears.
Animal Farm
Chapter 4. |
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all
animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make
your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make
the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
Animal Farm
Squealer, Chapter 5. |
Napoleon is always right.
Animal Farm
Boxer, Chapter 5. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were
happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well
aware that everything they did was for the benefit of themselves
and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for
a pack of idle, thieving human beings.
Animal Farm
Chapter 6. |
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that
it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
Animal Farm
Chapter 6. |
Every human being held it as an article of faith that the
farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that
the windmill would be a failure. They would meet in the public-houses
and prove to one another by means of diagrams that the windmill
was bound to fall down, or that if it did stand up, then that
it would never work. And yet, against their will, they had developed
a certain respect for the efficiency with which the animals
were managing their own affairs.
Animal Farm
Chapter 6.
. |
They were always cold, and usually hungry as well.
Animal Farm
Chapter 7. |
If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone
was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done
it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm
was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well. Curiously
enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key
was found under a sack of meal.
Animal Farm
Chapter 7. |
If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been
of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all
equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting
the weak.
Animal Farm
A tearful Clover after the slaughter of
the pigs and hens, Chapter 7. |
They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind,
when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had
to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking
crimes.
Animal Farm
Chapter 7. |
Some of the animals remembered - or thought they remembered
- that the Sixth Commandment decreed "No animal shall kill
any other animal." And though no one cared to mention it
in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the
killings which had taken place did not square with this.
Animal Farm
Chapter 8. |
It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every
successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You
would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the
guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs
in six days"; or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool,
would exclaim, "Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon,
how excellent this water tastes!"
Animal Farm
Chapter 8. |
Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved
to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips
than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours,
that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived
longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived
infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered
less from fleas.
Animal Farm
Squealer explains the "readjustment"
of rations, Chapter 9. |
Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were
free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not
fail to point out.
Animal Farm
Chapter 9. |
Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit
of Animalism. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working
hard and living frugally.
Animal Farm
Chapter 10. |
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his
long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could
be much better or much worse - hunger, hardship and disappointment
being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
Animal Farm
Chapter 10. |
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
Animal Farm
Chapter 10. |
No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to
pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible
to say which was which.
Animal Farm
Chapter 10. |
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