Quotes About Defamation

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

People might deserve a derogatory epithet, but it showed the mudslinger in just as bad a light.

To slur and sully, to belittle and drag down—that was what the world always tried to do.

Your mother didn't give birth to you, I told hint, but farted you out of her shrivelled arsehole. Frightened or not, Asser said, you've taken Peredur's silver, so you must fight them now. Say one more word, monk, I said, and I'll cut off your scrawny balls.

Thou wanton: dost thou dare call me noodle?

If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

It's slanderous to report things I didn't say, to degrade my reputation, it's sickening to me.

Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.

When it comes to defamation, slander, or libel, the truth is an absolute defense to the allegation.

To come and say about me that I'm destroying Israel, that I hate Israel, that's a bit insulting.

Her detractors, starting with her neighbor John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, derided her as the "instrument of Satan," the new Eve, and the "enemy of the chosen people." In summing her up, Winthrop called her "this American Jezebel"—the emphasis is his—making an epithet of the name that any Puritan would recognize as belonging to the most evil and shameful woman in the Bible.

In many ways, the cause of Christ is hurt most, not when it is vigorously denounced and fought against, but when it is laughed at and not taken seriously.

People who have repeated a slander either get ashamed or forget it if they're let alone. Challenge them, and in self-defense they believe everything they've said; they'd rather believe you a sinner than believe themselves liars, naturally. Submit to gossip and you kill it, fight it, and you make it strong. People will forget almost any slander except the one that's been fought.

Atticus said, "I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it's not true.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

Elliot was accused of being a "Nazi criminal" engaged in the "torture of dumb [sic] animals.

I have been accused of many crimes. A TV channel even put up a show called 'Sins of Asin!'

Often the mere suggestion of impropriety is enough to ruin someone. — Scot Harvath

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.' Alanna gasped with fury. I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

Slander boldly, something always sticks [Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret]

The world made a whore of me, now I'll make a whorehouse of the world

Esto no es un libro. Es un libelo, una calumnia, una difamación. No es un libro, en el sentido ordinario de la palabra. No, es un insulto prolongado, un escupitajo a la cara del arte, una patada en el culo a Dios, al hombre, al destino, al tiempo, al amor, a la belleza... a lo que os parezca.