1. “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
2. “I’m talking about the kitchen—just to be clear—at my food bowl.”
3. “Big Brother Is Watching You.”
4. “I am Big Brother. I am watching you.”
5. “You are a slow learner.”
6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
7. “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
8. “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
9. “Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though one had been turned into a jellyfish, or as though all one’s blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.”
10. “O cruel, needless misunderstanding!”
11. “Nothing exists except an endless present.”
12. “Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
13. “The object of torture is torture.”
14. “Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
15. “Four legs good, two legs bad.”
16. “The only good human being is a dead one.”
Orwell: 1, 3, 5, 8, 10-11, 13 (1984); 6, 12, 14-16 (Animal Farm); 7 (Reflections on Gandhi); 9 (Down and Out in Paris and London)
My pug: 1-16