old major

• We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies
• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
• It is summed up in a single word - Man. Man is the only real enemy we have
• Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?
• Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race
• Now, Comrades, what is this life of ours?
• But is this simply part of the order of Nature?
• No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free.
• Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings
• Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin