“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak.”
Book 58: Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked as a civil servant. He moved to England in 1907. Orwell served in the Home Guard during the second world war and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. But it was in 1945, Orwell was working as a war correspondent for the Observer in Paris, and he met Joseph Czapski, someone who had experienced the Soviet regime and inspired him to write Animal Farm.
This book has so many metaphors and analogies that everyone will interpret differently. But here are five quotes I have been reflecting on this week:
⚖️ “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
📚 “Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
🌿 “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”
💭 “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
♻️ “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer.”
Tell me what book you are reading right now?
Book 58: Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked as a civil servant. He moved to England in 1907. Orwell served in the Home Guard during the second world war and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. But it was in 1945, Orwell was working as a war correspondent for the Observer in Paris, and he met Joseph Czapski, someone who had experienced the Soviet regime and inspired him to write Animal Farm.
This book has so many metaphors and analogies that everyone will interpret differently. But here are five quotes I have been reflecting on this week:
⚖️ “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
📚 “Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
🌿 “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”
💭 “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
♻️ “Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer.”
Tell me what book you are reading right now?
