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Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. — Theodore Dwight Weld

Saying someone is gay who is gay no longer constitutes defamation or slander or libel. You cannot defame someone by telling the truth. — Larry Kramer

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 interests. — Rupert Murdoch

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels. — Orrin Woodward

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop

You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them. — Anne Enright

The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit. — Rand Paul

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits. — Victoria Woodhull

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 me. — Evelyn Waugh

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits. — Stephen Leacock

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As she dressed that night, Lucy remembered Catherine's words: "If it's true, it isn't libel. — Leslie Meier

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy. — William Hazlitt

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 Internet. — Walter Cronkite

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel. — Tucker Max

The blood libel took possession of the popular mind most rabidly in Germany, where the well-poisoning charge too had originated in the 12th century. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Middle-aged adolescents are a libel on the real thing. — Mason Cooley

No case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Libel settles nothing. — George Orwell

If God is good half the Bible is libel. — Michael R. Burch

The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people. — Max Lucado

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander. — Ron Paul

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies. — Lee Kuan Yew

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel. — Mark Russell

RUMOUR:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. — William Shakespeare

The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America. — Jacki Weaver

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Morgan was sent copies and decided to sue both publishers for libel. — David Cordingly

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. — James Thurber

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them. — Criss Jami

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. — G.K. Chesterton

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller

The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus - man is a wolf to man - ... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves. — Geoffrey Gorer

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

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. — Bill Moyers

Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? — Mahatma Gandhi

The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English. — Jean Giono

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world. — Richard Dawkins

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] — William Shakespeare

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum. — Patrick Kavanagh

The greater the truth the greater the libel. — Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. — John Selden

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