Libel Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got… — Graydon Carter
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world.… — Harry Kalven
Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth. — Larry Kramer
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy. — William Hazlitt
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence… — Sarah Palin
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is… — Mahatma Gandhi
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and… — Camille Paglia
Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. — Theodore Dwight Weld
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than… — James Payn
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies. — Lee Kuan Yew
Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before… — Lee Kuan Yew
Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens… — Lee Kuan Yew
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… — Elton John
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation… — David Irving
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English. — Jean Giono
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. — Mahatma Gandhi
Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander. — Ron Paul

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