← "But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? 🔊
← Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. 🔊
← The animals hated Moses because he told tales and did no work, but some of them believed in Sugarcandy Mountain, and the pigs had to argue very hard to persuade them that there was no such place. 🔊
← They had all the more reason for doing so because the news of their defeat had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighbouring farms more restive than ever. 🔊
← Even so, it was found necessary to leave certain tasks undone. The harvest was a little less successful than in the previous year, and two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough. 🔊
← There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars, which no animal could use, because no animal could stand on his hind legs. 🔊
← November came, with raging south−west winds. Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement. 🔊
← The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance. 🔊
← Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. 🔊
← Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. 🔊