George Orwell

George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
men animal eggs
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
animal two legs
Four legs good, two legs bad.
animal night pigs
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.
funny sarcasm animal
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
believe animal decision
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?
running fear animal
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.
animal causes farms
No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.
animal half tyranny
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
men animal enemy
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades
men animal interest
Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
animal pleasure masters
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.
hate animal humans
The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
past animal history
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.
want animalism comrade
Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?