Libel Quotes

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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus â€” man is a wolf to manâ€”... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with… — Geoffrey Gorer
...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer… — Charlotte Gerson
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were… — Washington Irving
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business… — Rupert Murdoch
Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than… — Jonathan Swift
There isn't any way to libel the human race. — Mark Twain
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and… — J. William Fulbright
Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to… — Ilka Chase
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel. — Mark Russell
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most… — Henry Anatole Grunwald
More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. — John Selden
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in… — Frank Smith
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the… — Walter Cronkite
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to… — Charles Dickens
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. — Albert Einstein
I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed… — Michael Moore
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. — James Thurber
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?… — Oscar Wilde
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,… — Frederick Douglass

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