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Quotes About Defamation

Son, this whole town's my personal urinal. Makes me feel like I own it, pissin' all over the fuckin' thing.
~ Samuel R. Delany
CAIUS MARCIUS: GO FUCK YOURSELF
~ John Osborne
Begone, begone, you bloody whoreson Gauls!
~ John Williams
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
~ Elton John
I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict.
~ Paula White
It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing...
~ George Orwell
Libel settles nothing.
~ George Orwell
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
~ George Washington
No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.
~ Don Feder
I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
~ Mark Twain
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth—a fact that is recognized by the law of libel.
~ Mark Twain
He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.
~ Ayn Rand
Hear me proclaim this, you loathsome turd from the ass of Typhon.
~ Stephen Fry
Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
~ Stephen King
If I'm garbage, you're a bunch of maggots.
~ Eminem
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
As much as anybody since George Wallace or Pat Buchanan, he has overtly sent dog whistles of race out to white working-class voters. That gratuitous defamation of group after group, person after person, is just anathema to Obama. He genuinely believes this guy would be a calamity for the country." Unlike the Bushes, who outsourced their political thuggery, Donald Trump does his own wet work. "He
~ Maureen Dowd
afraid of Slander Sheet. A lie this outrageous, you take it seriously.
~ Joseph Finder
In the beginning, it's why I stopped correcting my appearance - because the articles were mean and would repeat the image that my ex-husband tried to paint of me.
~ Jocelyn Wildenstein
I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn't true, it's extremely hurtful and frustrating.
~ Kyle Richards
There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.
~ Tracey Emin
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
~ Salman Khurshid
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
~ Lord Ellenborough