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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“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.”
“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. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
“The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.”
“His answer to every problem, every setback was ‘I will work harder!’ — which he had adopted as his personal motto.”
