Arise Quote by Richard Steele

“Defamation; is an act of impiety.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges…

— Toussaint Louverture

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

— Denis Diderot

“A Man who doesn't want to justify himself after being falsely accused, is apparently at Fault — or he has been accused falsely so…

— Sino Melo

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

— Mitch Daniels

“Society will question your reputation, but it will believe your defamation without question.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged "dignity," but, on the contrary, to regard…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you off. Does…

— Michael Wolff

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

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A man may count himself happy in having licence to slander; but he will be far happier if deprived entirely of that liberty. Then…

— Augustine of Hippo

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes…

— Epictetus