Journalism Quote by Stephen Leacock

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel…

— Stephen Leacock

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

Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the bill are…

— Simon Singh

“If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character.”

— John Braine

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about…

— Evelyn Waugh

There isn't any way to libel the human race.

— Mark Twain

“Love is boss when everything you hear about a person is filtered through their enemies, yet you still choose to love them.”

— Criss Jami

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

— Doris Lessing

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of…

— Richard Dawkins

“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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.…

— Frederick Douglass