Quotes From 'Animal Farm'

Have you ever heard the saying “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” and “We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”? These quotes come from George Santayana and George Bernard Shaw, these men tell how it’s common for people to repeat past mistakes. However, if people learn to look back and understand history, it’s harder to replicate disastrous actions. History is full of wars and brutish words, yet the source of all these problems come from a single issue: power. Leaders seek power in every crevice they can find. In the book, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, Napoleon is a cruel dictator who successfully takes over a farm after running off its competitors. Major, an old pig, told the farm of a new way of living. However, after he died, Napoleon steadily took over the farm. Therefore, taking the time to understand history’s past and mistakes can be an effective weapon against repeating the same mistakes. Failure to learn outcomes in a repetition of history, as Napoleon proves, as shown in today’s life, learning from history helps resolve futures issues, and only suffering comes from problematic actions of the past.

This is first shown when the fourth commandment is changed. The other farm animals find out that they changed the fourth commandment. There was a ruckus about the commandment and the pigs used fear to make the animals bend the rule a little bit. Than in chapter six the animals got Together and one of the pigs, Squealer said, “surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"4 All the animals felt threatened and no one wanted the drunken Mr. Jones to come back to the farm. On the other hand the Bolsheviks used fear to get what they

Quote Reflection Whether it’s learning not to touch stove when it's hot as a little kid or even government officials learning from wars that have happened in the past. We all must be able to look at the past failures and learn from them so that we don’t repeat them in the future. That is why I agree with the quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I believe that this quote shows truth all the way back when the New World was first being settled and all the way up to today.

Howard Zinn makes a statement that is a powerful analogy regarding this, “I assume that history is not a well-ordered city (despite the neat stacks of the library) but a jungle… we who plunge into the jungle need to think about what we are doing, because there is somewhere we want to go” (Zinn). This quote represents that people thinking about their actions are required for a metaphorical, world peace and harmony. If those people think about their actions before they act upon them, then they will realize they might have a future before wrecking a historical time period. A prime example of history repeating past historical events is the Rwanda Genocide in respects to the Holocaust. The Holocaust developed as the Nazi’s killed Jewish people because they were the inferior race.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -George Santayana (as originally written). This much has always been true to those who study the seemingly extinguished conflicts of the former world. The undeniable fact of it is, history can and will repeat itself, lest society seeks to learn from it. In order for society to learn from the tragedies of yesteryear, certain changes must take place, because change is essential for growth - which in turn fuels further change: a fundamental cycle that society must commence. Without change and growth, humanity is thrown into a state of chaos and destruction; one’s logical thinking may get the best of them. In order to grasp control over the recurrences of history, Some supposedly

To add on, the boy’s only depend on violence as their answer to survival, which causes them to turn into ruthless savages. These boy’s have no clue as to when they’ll be rescued or if anyone knows they’ve gone missing, so survival skills are crucially vital while being stranded. There’s so many options to choose from in order to survive, but their only process of thought is to use the skills of violence in order to survive. In the novel it states, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood,” (Golding 96). On the island, pigs are one of their main sources of food and most of the boys spent their day hunting them down and killing them. It started to become ridiculous when violence was their only thought. This is evident when the text states,

*If we ignore the past of what people had done, we would make the same mistakes what people in the past has done, if we did not ignore the past and learn everything that had happened in the past we would learn the same mistakes and

George Santayana’s quote from the novel “The Life of Reason, volume 1” explains about history and human nature. If you do not learn from your mistakes from the past, you will make the same mistakes again. “Progress, far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness.’’ This means in regards to history that progress does not depend on change but more on the ability to retain from past experience. “When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.” Also, “In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence.” This two quotes explains the human nature that if you don’t learn from your past mistakes, you will be like savages or live forever

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. These often quoted words were spoken by philosopher George Santayana in 1863 to remind those of the present not to dismiss the past it contains lessons that should not be forgot. In order to learn from the past though it must be researched; however, this research often relies on first hand accounts written by people who lived during that period in order to gain a glimpse into life. Yet, these accounts must be observed within the context in which they were recorded. Often, these documents were recorded by missionaries focused on converting the native population to Christianity and so were bias towards their cause. Take, for example, the accounts of Jesuit Jean de Brébeuf

Animal Farm by George Orwell can directly relate to George Santayana's quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote means we are prone to repeat ourselves if we cannot remember our mistakes from the past and learn from them; and by the time we notice a repetition in history, it is already too late. The animals in Animal Farm are not able to tell if their situation is better or worse than Jones's time because they cannot remember their life in the past. "There were times when it seemed to the animals that they worked longer hours and fed no better than they had done in Jones’s day. On Sunday mornings Squealer, holding down a long strip of paper with his trotter, would read out to them lists of figures proving

This was the final cut on the Seven Commandments, the most significant example of the pigs’ abuse of wording. This statement gives the word “equal” a more relative than absolute meaning, implying that there are different levels of equal (which is an oxymoron), or to put it indirectly, “All animals are not equal”. This is directed at the fabricated line of division between the pigs and the animals. The pigs definitely consider them that “some”, while the rest are the “all”. The Rebellion was for the social good of the animal society. But what was with the best of intention, turned into something conceivably worse than the previous oppressive state. This quote, which is a revision of the original Commandments, was formerly a symbol of good intent,

The 7 commandments made by the pigs symbolizes the power and manipulation the pigs have over the other animals. The use of the commandments represent how words can manipulate others and lead to an abuse of power. For example, at the end of chapter 3 Squealer manages to convince the rest of the animals that the pigs needed the apples and milk they had taken to preserve health. In addition, Squealer tells the animals that the pigs don’t even like their food and only eat for the good of the farm. Then, he uses Jones’ return to justify their extra meals and says “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," This ended the argument and convinced the animals that the pigs needed to eat the main crop of apples. This breaks the farm’s commandment concerning animal equality however, the pigs trick the animals into believing everything is right through fear mongering.

The seven commandments are a list of rules painted on the side of the barn, which state the laws for the animals about what they can and can’t do. The first commandment to change in the story is the 7th commandment which states that all animals are equal. This commandment changes because some animals are valued over others, and other animals receive food, and others are left to starve. For example the pigs would take the milk and apples for themselves and just tell the other animals that the pigs needed the food in order to keep the pigs in good health because they were the smartest, and would be able to prevent Jones from coming back. “Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones

These commandments were to “form an unalterable law” (pg.17) but as the pigs quickly began to realise that their mental capabilities outshone the other animals, their self entitled supremacy rose with it. Their constant desire for power then followed and they believed that their egotistical ideals were not something to be reckoned with, therefore manipulating the commandments to their own liking. This was exemplified when the commandments are gradually undermined by the pigs to; “no animal must sleep in a bed” to “no animal must sleep in a bed with sheets” (pg.17,50), and “no animal shall kill any other animal” to “no animal shall kill any other animal without cause” (pg.17, 66)( Dr Jennifer Minter, English Works, 2016). The pigs act as if they are abiding by the commandments to gain the trust from the mindless animals using strategical manipulation strategies, then later reveal their true intentions in a time and way that no animal is cunning enough to challenge them, making them all powerless to protesting against the supremacy. A representation of this occurs by all the original commandments being erased and replaced with the new guiding principle “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others” (pg.

In "Animal Farm,” the pigs make up the 7 commandments that all of the animals in the