“ 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. ”
George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
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| Source | Animal Farm |
| Topic | hunger scene |
| Date | 1945 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011h.html |
Context
“Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. 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.”
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