Animal Farm Snowball Quotes

THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 2. The pigs reduced the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandment. These were inscribed on the wall in large white letters by Snowball with Squealer holding the paint-pot. They would form an unalterable law by which all animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.

Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun flew out of his hands. But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion. His very first blow took a stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. At the sight, several men dropped their sticks and tried to run.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 4. The Battle of the Cowshed, in which Jones and a group of men try to take back his farm. However, they don’t succeed. Snowball is hero of the hour after his military-style defense.

The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, “Animal Hero, First Class,” which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer. It consisted of a brass medal (they were really some old horse-brasses which had been found in the harness-room), to be worn on Sundays and holidays. There was also “Animal Hero, Second Class,” which was conferred posthumously on the dead sheep.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter. The ‘heroes’ of the Battle of the Cowshed are awarded honors.

Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals’ minds at rest. He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested. It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball. A few animals still felt faintly doubtful, but Squealer asked them shrewdly, ‘Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?’ And since it was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in writing, the animals were satisfied that they had been mistaken.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 6. Napoleon’s minister for propaganda, the silver-tongued Squealer, convinces the animals that a rule against trade with humans never existed. He scapegoats the expelled Snowball, whom he says spread the rumor and the lie.

When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was more shocking – the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed…Since Jones had left the farm, until today, no animal had killed another animal. Not even a rat had been killed.

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 7. The animals are horrified at this turn of events, of animals being killed by animals in Napoleon’s wave of terror.
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