The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness. Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And yet the animals never gave up hope. More, they never lost, even for an instant, their sense of honour and privilege… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings Of the golden future time.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
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… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
