Quotes from book

Animal Farm

“No sentimentality, comrade… The only good human being is a dead one.”

“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.”

“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.”

“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial”

“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man”

“He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.”

“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.”

“Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?”

“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.”

“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.”

“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing”

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”

“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

“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?”

“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”