Top 31 Animal Farm Quotes By George Orwell To Read

1. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

2. “One does not say that a book ‘ought not to have been published’ merely because it is a bad book. After all, acres of rubbish are printed daily and no one bothers.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

3. “It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

4. “Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

5. “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer – except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

6. “Donkeys live a long time. None of you have ever seen a dead donkey.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

7. “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 By George Orwell

8. “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

9. “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 By George Orwell

10. “Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

11. “Never mind the milk, comrades!” cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. “That will be attended to. The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting.” “So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

12. “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

13. “Four legs good, two legs bad.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

14. “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

15. “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 By George Orwell

16. “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 that 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 By George Orwell

17. “Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

18. “Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interest of no creature except himself.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

19. “The only good human being is a dead one.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

20. “The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

21. “His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

22. “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?” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm

23. “There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word– Man.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

24. “I meant the moral to be that revolutions only affect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

25. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on—that is, badly.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

26. “The result of preaching totalitarian doctrines is to weaken the instinct by means of which free peoples know what is or is not dangerous.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

27. “The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

28. “No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

29. “Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.” ― Animal Farm By George Orwell

30. “All men are enemies. All animals are comrades” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm

31. “Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. 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 By George Orwell

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