The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

This has been attributed to Orwell on the internet, but the earliest source citing him as author appears to be a post from Jsnip4 on the RealistNews.net forum (15 February 2011). Prior to this, the statement occurred, without attribution to Orwell, in an opinion piece by columnist Selwyn Duke, "Stopping Truth At The Border: Banning Michael Savage From Britain" (6 May 2009).