Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
Given the state of libel law, whenever a public figure gets to face a jury, it is a victory. — Jonathan Lubell Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations. — Simon Singh 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
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words. — Cliff Stearns 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
“People who have never sued anyone or been sued have missed a narcissistic pleasure that is not quite like any other.” — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Propaganda is the evil twin of Fiction: while Fiction is the art of telling the truth without ever telling the truth, Propaganda… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies… — Harry Kalven Copy Share Image
“I hope each of us owns the facts of her or his own life," Hughes wrote in a letter to the Independent… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic… — Jack Crawford Copy Share Image
“ Tickler : I hate novelties. Is the prosecution mania about to subside, think you? Now-a-days, every word is said to be… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
“The answer lies in a system of press management combining watertight legal controls with a compelling political ideology that encourages not just… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
“What looks to be the cleanest political party, for a period, will often prove to be the filthiest in the end. Just… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel.” — David Cordingly Copy Share Image
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
