"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."
- attributed (or misattributed) to George Orwell, author:

These books are on the crowd-sourced Recommended Reading lists in this forum.

Regarding the attribution or misattribution of this quote:
This quote has been attributed to author George Orwell, but may have actually been the words of Selwyn Duke.
Quote misattributed to George Orwell about society drifting from the truth continues to circulate online
by Reuters fact Check
Reuters
Dec 9, 2021
link - https://www.reuters.com/article/fac...inues-to-circulate-online-idUSL1N2SU1K1/