“ 'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. ”
George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
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| Source | Animal Farm |
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| Date | 1945 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011h.html |
Context
“There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word—Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever.
'Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
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