Given Quote by Ian Hislop Download Open image “All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.” — Ian Hislop ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Given Given up Lawyer Libel
Nobody wants to get rid of the libel laws, but we want them to be fairer. If we drove down the costs you might… — Simon Singh 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, because they… — Elton John Copy Share Image
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… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We're going to open up the libel laws. So when they write falsely, we can sue the media and we can get this story corrected and get damages. I would absolutely work to open up the libel laws. If you write something that's wrong, and at least, knowingly wrong but wrong, a person like me and other people can bring… — Donald Trump Copy Share
A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials… — Rod Lurie Copy Share
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred… — Charles Bradlaugh 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 to go… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a… — Edward Coke 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, they will… — Simon Singh 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
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
