HUMAN BEINGS in Classic Quotes

1  With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III

2  As the human beings approached the farm buildings, Snowball launched his first attack.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV

3  Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI

4  Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII

5  And when the human beings listened to it, they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV

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

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI

7  There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI

8  The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV

9  Except for Mollie and Snowball, no other animal had ever left the farm, and they did not like to think of their sick comrade in the hands of human beings.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX

10  Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII

11  She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII

12  The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI

13  It was fully realised that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V

14  Sometimes the work was hard; the implements had been designed for human beings and not for animals, and it was a great drawback that no animal was able to use any tool that involved standing on his hind legs.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III

15  The animals carried on as best they could with the rebuilding of the windmill, well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished on time.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII

16  Rumours of a wonderful farm, where the human beings had been turned out and the animals managed their own affairs, continued to circulate in vague and distorted forms, and throughout that year a wave of rebelliousness ran through the countryside.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV

17  But they were happy in their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that everything that they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle, thieving human beings.

Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI