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Quotes About Defamation

Lihatlah bajingan-bajingan itu mengencingi tanah kita. Mereka tak akan tertawa sekeras itu ketika aku berjongkok dan buang air besar di tengah-tengah Berlin. Mungkin itulah sebabnya aku tidak bisa mengeluarkan tinja. Ususku menunggu kemenangan.
~ David Benioff
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
~ Pythagoras
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
~ Ambrose Bierce
American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.
~ Corey Clark
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
~ Richard Schickel
It's absurd to see people who have spent a lifetime standing against racism, being accused of racism, by racists.
~ Alexei Sayle
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
~ Jordan Peterson
Done to death by slanderous tongues.
~ William Shakespeare
For slander lives upon succession,Forever housed where it gets possession.
~ William Shakespeare
Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?
~ William Shakespeare
Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour de Fuck.
~ David Wong
Cuantos hablan de mí no me conocen', decía a lo largo de sus diez líneas cortas (pero eran prosa), 'y al hablar me calumnian; los que me conocen callan, y al callar no me defienden; así, todos me maldicen hasta que me encuentran, mas al encontrarme descansan, y a mí me salvan, aunque yo nunca descanso.
~ Javier Marías
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 says they can't be held liable for defamation made by third parties. They're considered a vector for other people's free speech, technically, so they're in the clear.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
I am going to knock the slut out of you. And that should take some doing, you uppity English tramp!
~ Jeaniene Frost
A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
~ Henry Grunwald
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
~ Mark Russell
My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.
~ Francis Picabia
Listen to me, you broken-fanged, moss-wiped excuse for a back-drafted blood bag!" Jenks said, a silver-edged red dust slipping from him.
~ Kim Harrison
Bug!" Francis exclaimed. "You're a—" His words choked off with a rasp as I jerked my arm. "Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you? Call me a bug! Rachel, let me do him now!
~ Kim Harrison
Fuckhead: The name's MariKETA. Go to hell, The WITCH, doing a creepy spell somewhere right now.
~ Kresley Cole
Kill the unclean one!" Being called that was really getting old. Like it'd been funny the first two times . . .
~ Kresley Cole