Animal Farm

Animal Farm by George Orwell is a fantastic depiction of the rise and fall of Communism in Russia, as told through a group of farm animals.

Notable Excerpts

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

But freedom, as Rosa Luxembourg [sic] said, is ‘freedom for the other fellow’. The same principle is contained in the famous words of Voltaire: ‘I detest what you say; I will defend to the death your right to say it.’

…defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought.

But how much of the present slide towards Fascist ways of thought is traceable to the ‘anti-Fascism’ of the past ten years and the unscrupulousness it has entailed?

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.