I may use this in the future. i'll say "i heard a great quote 'The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.', what do you think of it?" and the leftist will run their fact checker and find it to be false, looking to attack it and see it was marked false due to orwell and get back to me thinking they're all smart saying "oh really? who said that?" Then i'lll say "Selwyn Duke did in the article <you posted>, but it's not about the author, it's about the quote, what do you think of it?" Just to get their huffy reaction and pithy ignorance.
It's a quote from Selwyn Duke, in a 2009 article defending Michael Savage.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/george_orwell_is_stealing_my_work.html
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Also, for people's future reference, Orwell also never wrote, "In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/02/24/truth-revolutionary/
Pretty much every quote can be challenged.
Rothschild was alleged to have said, “Let me control the nations money supply, and i care not who makes the laws”
Someone challenged me on that quote, and sure enough, it was impossible for me to prove.
I may use this in the future. i'll say "i heard a great quote 'The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.', what do you think of it?" and the leftist will run their fact checker and find it to be false, looking to attack it and see it was marked false due to orwell and get back to me thinking they're all smart saying "oh really? who said that?" Then i'lll say "Selwyn Duke did in the article <you posted>, but it's not about the author, it's about the quote, what do you think of it?" Just to get their huffy reaction and pithy ignorance.