Among the most famous lines from George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm (1945) is “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This line originates in the story as “All animals are equal,” a founding principle of “Animalism” and one of the seven commandments of an egalitarian society set up by a group of barnyard animals who overthrow their human masters. The commandment is amended, however, as the animals’ intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution and set up a dictatorship even more oppressive than that of their former human masters.
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