Critical Thinking exercises:

George Orwell quotes, 1984 movie

George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. He was a man of strong opinions who wrote on some major topics related to the political views and movements of his times.

His best known novels are Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unfortunately, he didn’t get to enjoy the success of the last one, as he passed away one year after the book was published. Both novels have been turned into films and have enjoyed incredible popularity.

                Orwell’s work had a great impact on popular and political culture. Many of his neologisms entered the language together with the term Orwellian, which describes a situation, idea, or societal condition identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society.

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” ~George Orwell

 

1984 Original Film, Westinghouse Studio 01, produced 1953, for showing to the military

 

Orwell’s final warning – Picture of the future

 

George Orwell, born Eric Blair in India in 1903, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic.⁰ He is known for his visionary works such as Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, as well as his eyewitness non-fiction classics Down and Out in Paris in London, The Road to Wigan Pier, and Homage to Catalonia.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm … “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” ― George Orwell

Orwell had a high moral sense and respect for justice.

Here are other  George Orwell quotes to make you stop and think:

• If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
• In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
• Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
• In the face of pain there are no heroes.
• Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

• People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
• On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
• Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
• We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.

• If you can feelthat staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them. 
• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
• The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” –George Orwell

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.” ~George Orwell