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

[4est_4est_Gump]

We already know dead people can vote, but here’s a new one for you: They can plagiarize, too. A few years ago I read a “George Orwell” quotation that had begun to gain some currency: “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” The problem is Orwell never said it. And I ought to know.

Because I said it.

(Or, to be precise, I wrote it.)

I originated the saying — and it’s safe to aver that it has achieved saying status — in my 2009 piece “Stopping Truth at the Border: Banning Michael Savage from Britain.” So you can imagine my surprise when I learned people were quoting it and Orwell was taking credit for it. Just goes to show you, never trust a socialist.

Selwyn Duke


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[Ms_Ann]

"The truth is not fact or reason. The truth is just what everyone agrees on!"

Elphaba

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There is that...



Of course if we ll agreed that 2*2=8. it would still not be true.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Selwyn Duke


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So you can imagine my surprise when I learned people were quoting it and Orwell was taking credit for it.

Someone should tell the dumbass Selwyn Duke at The American "Thinker" that Orwell wasn't taking credit for anything that he claims to have written in 2009, since he died in 1950. People mis-attributing the quote is not Orwell "taking credit for it".

What a maroon. What a nin-cow-poop. What a gull-a-bull.

 

[Lancecastor]

There is nothing new under the sun.

 

[deehere]

Someone should tell the dumbass Selwyn Duke at The American "Thinker" that Orwell wasn't taking credit for anything that he claims to have written in 2009, since he died in 1950. People mis-attributing the quote is not Orwell "taking credit for it".

What a maroon. What a nin-cow-poop. What a gull-a-bull.

Nice to see somebody besides me who remembers Bugs Bunny saying those lines. Also, eternal truths and natural laws do not change so there is a great amount of truth in his quote.

 

[Ms_Ann]

There is that...



Of course if we ll agreed that 2*2=8. it would still not be true.

Depends on the agreed upon definitin of "8".

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Who said Orwell claimed credit U_D?


You remain a moron...

Where the fuck is the rational side of your marriage? Did you put her in the freezer?

 

[twistedsickmind]

Depends on the agreed upon definitin of "8".

Which, of course, depends upon what the definition of "is" is.

 

[Disgustipated]

Why is the OP still here? Isn't multiple warnings enough

 

[Lancecastor]

Why is the OP still here? Isn't multiple warnings enough

You are a cowardly scumbag.

 

[Disgustipated]

You are a cowardly scumbag.

Link? Cite?

 

[KUJACK]

Schopenauer, philospher

Selwyn Duke


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Arthur Schopenauer said that the truth as three phases.
Ridicule, violent opppsition and finally acceptance that it was always true.
He was hated by most Germans until the beginning of WWI

 

[Pookie]

Why is the OP still here? Isn't multiple warnings enough

He had a thread closed and removed about 4 hours ago which was nothing but whining about the bad 'ol Kitty Mama not enforcing rules that don't exist and picking on him.

What was it specifically about you ask? Well, I got out this ...

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/290919457052-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

 

[nerfhearder]

Who said Orwell claimed credit U_D?


You remain a moron...

Where the fuck is the rational side of your marriage? Did you put her in the freezer?

Your own post says he was taking credit for it and the other guy quoted the relevant line. How can you not see that?