chapter1-5

Even the horses and the dogs have no better fate. You,Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker, whowill cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. As for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless,Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond. 

"Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of humanbeings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. A1most overnight we couldbecome rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow ofthe human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! I do not know when that Rebellion willcome, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, but I know, as surely as I see this straw beneath my feet,that sooner or later justice will be done.

 Fix your eyes on that, comrades, throughout the short remainder ofyour lives! And above all, pass on this message of mine to those who come after you, so that futuregenerations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious."

And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listenwhen they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is theprosperity of the others. It is all lies.