The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.