Concept Statement Pt.1

CONCEPT STATEMENT (PT.1):

QUOTES FROM ANIMAL FARM:

* "I have no wish to take life, not even human life,' repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears."

- George Orwell, Animal Farm

* "they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes."- Animal Farm

* "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"

- George Orwell, Animal Farm

* "No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

* "they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes."

THE GIVER QUOTES:

*  "He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace."

* "they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them."

*  "No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals."

* "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others."

* "Memories are forever."

* "It's the way they live. It's the life that was created for them. It's the same life that you would have, if you had not been chosen as my successor."

* "Then, the first wave of pain. He gasped. It was as if a hatchet lay lodged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade. In his agony, he perceived the word 'fire' and felt flames licking at the torn bone and flesh."

* "It was a sound of rage and grief and it seemed never to end."

LORD OF FLIES QUOTES:

* "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.'"

* "Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life."

* "'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.'"

* "The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering."

* "You're not wanted..."

* "They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable."

* "We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing."

- William Golding, Lord of the Flies

* "You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!"

* "Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?"

*"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."

* "He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."

OTHER POSSIBLE QUOTES (NOT FROM THE BOOKS):

From Nicolas Gomez Davila: 

"An "ideal society" would be a graveyard of human greatness."

"Violence is not necessary to destroy civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference of the unique values which created it."