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
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words. — Cliff Stearns 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 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
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a… — Geoffrey Gorer Copy Share Image
“...free-associative sexual libel...is typical of the impulses of religious authoritarians to demonize all heretics by attributing to them every manner of outrage… — Jonathan Kirsch 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
Hillary Clinton thinks the government ought to have the power to eliminate - they go after Donald Trump saying he wants to… — Rush Limbaugh 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
Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those… — Sarah Josepha Hale 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
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
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
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
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 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
“Sometimes the Church patently tried to profit from such incidents: the Benedictine monks of Norwich Cathedral in England, encouraged by their bishop,… — Diarmaid MacCulloch Copy Share Image
“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that… — Bryan Stevenson 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
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,… — Doris Lessing 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
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless,… — Simon Singh 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
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
“Love is boss when everything you hear about a person is filtered through their enemies, yet you still choose to love them.” — Criss Jami 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
“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
“If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real… — John Braine Copy Share Image
“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
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
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
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
“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
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
![“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/i/2b2/donald-trump-18_addresses_people-who-are-capable-of-such-crimes-ag_1635586.jpg)
