← Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. 🔊
← "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? 🔊
← Every drop of it has gone down the throats of our enemies. And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? 🔊
← And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and pleasure of your old age? 🔊
← You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. 🔊
← Fix your eyes on that, comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives! And above all, pass on this message of mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious. 🔊
← asked Mollie. "Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. 🔊
← Napoleon took no interest in Snowball's committees. He said that the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who were already grown up. 🔊
← Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. 🔊
← ALL that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings. 🔊
← Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. 🔊
← Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out. 🔊
← Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.' Those were his very last words, comrades." 🔊