George Orwell Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945) See Bierce 141

• 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

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  Believe, Animal, Decision

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.20, Hamilton Books

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Night, Pigs

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  Animal, Men, Pigs

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945)

• Four legs good, two legs bad.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Two, Legs

  Animal Farm ch. 3 (1945)

• In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Animal, Law

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Enemy

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics

• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Eggs

  Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

• No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Causes, Farms

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Past, History

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

• Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Public Opinion

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  George Orwell

  Animal, Half, Tyranny

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.22, Hamilton Books

• 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

  Sleep, Animal, Wings

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.21, Penguin UK

• Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

  George Orwell

  Men, Animal, Interest

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

  George Orwell

  Distance, Cat, Animal

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

• 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 what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Hot

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.14, Hamilton Books

• The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

  George Orwell

  Hate, Animal, Humans

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.24, Hamilton Books

• 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.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Pleasure, Masters

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

• The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Dignity, Evolution

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Slavery, Misery

  David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.29, Barron's Educational Series

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