Animal Farm Mr. Jones Quotes

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.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major tells the animals that humans force them to work and give away their produce. Not a pretty picture of animal life under Mr. Jones.

He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of Number 6 shot into the darkness. The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly. Everyone fled to his own sleeping-place. The birds jumped onto their perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 1. After Old Major’s rebellion speech, a reminder that Mr. Jones is very much in charge and is indeed a tyrant.

Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun flew out of his hands. But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion. His very first blow took a stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. At the sight, several men dropped their sticks and tried to run.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 4. The Battle of the Cowshed, in which Jones and a group of men try to take back his farm. However, they don’t succeed. Snowball is hero of the hour after his military-style defense.
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