The quote from animal farm is “four legs good, two legs bad.” This expression, which happens in Chapter III, establishes Snowball’s compression of the Seven Commandments of Animalism, which themselves function as condensations of Old major’s inspiring speech on the need for animal harmony in the face of human domination. The phrase requests one of the novel’s many moments of propagandizing, which Orwell depicts as one instance of how the top class misuses language to govern the minor classes.