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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others

  1. A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell . The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a small elite.


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"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" - this famous quote from George Orwell's satirical novel has found such resonance in Zimbabwe that author Petina Gappah has translated Animal Farm into the local Shona language.

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But Musk's concept of what constitutes democracy is way off of what it is by definition, hence this classic "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" move.

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Perhaps George Orwell was prescient in "1984" when he wrote, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

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The beasts — committed to the concept that “all animals are equal” — struggle to create an equitable government only to find their ideals subverted by the ambitious pig Napoleon, who utters the novel’s famous catchphrase, “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

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“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

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