Libel Quotes
51 quotes by 46 authors
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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
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
— Uri Geller
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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
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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
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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
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
— Ian Hislop
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Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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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
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Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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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
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The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
— Lee Kuan Yew
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
— Jean Giono
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.
— Ron Paul
Who Wrote These Libel Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 51 Libel Quotes, led by these top contributors: