Animal Farm is a famous satirical allegorical novella written by George Orwell.
Animal Farm tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
I have shortlisted some of the best quotes from Animal Farm book for you.
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Animal Farm Quotes by George Orwell
“Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“No sentimentality, comrade…The only good human being is a dead one.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“I have no wish to take life, not even human life.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
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Quotes from Animal Farm by George Orwell
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“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 (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
Famous Animal Farm Quotes
“The only good human being is a dead one.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“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.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
Top Animal Farm Quotes
“Surely, comrades, you don’t want Jones back?” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Four legs good, two legs bad.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“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.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“The Seven Commandments:
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
No animal shall wear clothes.
No animal shall sleep in a bed.
No animal shall drink alcohol.
No animal shall kill any other animal.
All animals are equal.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“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.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
Powerful Animal Farm Quotes by George Orwell
“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.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” – which he had adopted as his personal motto.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on–that is, badly.” ~ George Orwell (quote from Animal Farm book).
“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 (quote from Animal Farm book).
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