← It is about this that I wish to speak to you. 🔊
← Each was sold at a year old−you will never see one of them again. 🔊
← "And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. 🔊
← I cannot describe that dream to you. It was a dream of the earth as it will be when Man has vanished. 🔊
← None of you has ever seen a dead donkey," and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer. 🔊
← Squealer was sent to make the necessary explanations to the others. "Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? 🔊
← And−I was a long way away, but I am almost certain I saw this−he was talking to you and you were allowing him to stroke your nose. 🔊
← Do you give me your word of honour that that man was not stroking your nose?" 🔊
← Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?" And since it was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in writing, the animals were satisfied that they had been mistaken. 🔊
← "You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? 🔊
← Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?" The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. 🔊
← Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? 🔊
← But we were wrong, comrades. Do you know what the real reason was? Snowball was in league with Jones from the very start! 🔊
← Do you not remember how, just at the moment when Jones and his men had got inside the yard, Snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? 🔊
← And do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that Comrade Napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'Death to Humanity!' 🔊
← "Do you not see what they are doing? In another moment they are going to pack blasting powder into that hole." 🔊
← You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done. The enemy was in occupation of this very ground that we stand upon. 🔊
← "It does not matter. I think you will be able to finish the windmill without me. 🔊
← To tell you the truth, I had been looking forward to my retirement. And perhaps, as Benjamin is growing old too, they will let him retire at the same time and be a companion to me." 🔊
← "Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?" That gave the animals pause, and there was a hush. 🔊