People who agree with the sentiment seem to believe that if its not Cicero, then it must have been someone else in antiquity who must have have said it or something similar and oh my gosh does it ever apply now. They're not clicking on that its a made-up quote by a contemporary source who shares their own political leaning - so no surprise it will seem apt - but who dressed it up to make it appear to be some sort of ominous prophetic eternal truth by deliberately and misleadingly attributing it to a source from antiquity. "Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves..." -- Lauryn Hill