The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — 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
The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks the whip. But the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — 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
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
“Animal Farm is not a book about how pigs—animals—when bestowed with power start to behave like men. It is a book about… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common.… — 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 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
“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
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
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced… — 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
