Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

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"What is this that I have heard about the windmill being blown down by the wind?"
Napoleon
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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
Squealer
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"Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests"
Squealer
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"Snowball's influence was subversive"
Squealer
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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
Marlow
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"It is for your own good that we make these decisions"
Squealer
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"Snowball was a traitor from the beginning"
Napoleon
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"Do you not see that we have already achieved our goals"
Squealer
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"There was an air of plotting about that station"
Marlow
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"Four legs good, two legs bad."
Squealer
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"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades."
Old Major
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"Trade relations will destroy our independence."
Napoleon
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"Loyalty to Napoleon is loyalty to the farm."
Squealer
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"The people in power will never give it up."
Yossarian
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"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal."
Squealer
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"What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural."
Yossarian
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"Four legs good, two legs bad"
Squealer
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"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy"
Old Major
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"Snowball was in league with humans"
Squealer
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"History would be rewritten by those who held power."
Squealer
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"Man is the only real enemy we have."
Old Major
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"Our leaders deserve better treatment than the common animals."
Squealer
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"Pigs must lead because they are the cleverest."
Squealer
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"The humans were the true enemy."
Snowball
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"Obedience to the pigs is obedience to the farm."
Squealer
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"Trade with humans would improve their lives."
Napoleon
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"Snowball is a traitor and a criminal."
Napoleon
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"Four legs good, two legs bad"
Squealer
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"Snowball is working with human farmers against us"
Squealer
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"Snowball would have let us starve"
Squealer