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“I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer—except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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