Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English. — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is a certain belief that so long as something is published in cyberspace there is no need to respect the laws… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to get rid of the libel laws, but we want them to be fairer. If we drove down the costs… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“...It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
“The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“I take what Jennifer Lee reported (in her 1991 memoir ) with a grain of salt.” — Cecil Brown Copy Share Image
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. — John Selden Copy Share Image
People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight. — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
![“People who are capable of such crimes against our nation [like destruction of 33,000 e-mails] are capable of anything. And so now we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the [Hillary] Clinton machine and the New York Times and other media outlets, as part of a…” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b2/donald-trump-18_addresses_people-who-are-capable-of-such-crimes-ag_1635586.jpg)
