Defamation Quotes

• My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Character, Reality

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• More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

  Marvin Olasky

  Games, Play, People

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• Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  Abraham Lincoln

  Truth, Honesty, Libel

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Years, Trials, Lawyer

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Character, Enemy, Needs

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• Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Coward, Defense

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.126

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• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

  Epictetus

  Love, True Friend, Lying

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• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Rumour was the messenger
  Of defamation, and so swift, that none
  Could be the first to tell an evil tale.

  Robert Pollok

  Evil, Rumor, Messengers

  Robert Pollok (1857). “The Course of Time: A Poem”, p.277

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• For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

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• How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?

  RZA

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.14, Penguin

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• Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Years, Manipulation, Manners

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Reputation, Poor

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

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• Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

  Richard Steele

  Heart, Men, Self

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.318

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Rewards, Refrain, Disgusted

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except your awareness, all is accidental. Pain and pleasure, success and failure, fame and defamation - all is accidental. Only your witnessing consciousness is essential. Stick to it! Get more and more rooted in it. And don't spread your attachment to worldly things.

  Rajneesh

  Pain, Attachment, Essentials

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• If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

  John Tyler

  Encouragement, Independent, Abuse

  Letter to Robert Tyler, March 12, 1848.

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• This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Book, Destiny

  Tropic of Cancer ch. 1 (1934)

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• If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

  Max Scheler

  Self, Age, Movement

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

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• In my opinion, according to the law of defamation prevalent in this country (U.S.A.), you cannot in any way participate in the publication of the 'Forces Secrètes de la Révolution' by de Poncins, without incurring grave legal responsibility with risk of damages...The personalities and associations criticized are so powerful in this country that very costly lawsuits would certainly result from the publication of the book.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Country, Powerful, Book

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• But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

  Joseph Addison

  Giving, Silence, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.98

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• Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid by those who cavalierly chose to verbally disrespect the dignity of African Americans, Jews, women and homosexuals is steep.

  John C. McGinley

  League, African American, Disrespect

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• We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.

  Kenneth Goff

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Lavrent Beria, Kenneth Goff “THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics”, Lulu.com

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• If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Children, Wine, Insanity

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