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Libel Quotes

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

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.

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

Bill Moyers
Mistake, Journalism, Libel
Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.109, Anchor

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

Jean Giono
Said, Libel, Noisy
Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.36, Northwestern University Press

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
Trust, Truth, Libel

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

Mark Russell
Opponents, Politician, Libel

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Women, Heart, Libel
Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

Edward Coke
Men, Made, Libel
77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.

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

John Selden
Ballads, Libel, Shows
John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.80

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Satire, Libel

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

Lee Kuan Yew
Law, Enemy, Libel

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Titles, Wealth, Libel
1812 Declaration of Rights, article 27.

If God is good half the Bible is libel.

Michael R. Burch
Half, Libel, Ifs

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

Mark Twain
Race, Way, Libel
Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.136, Univ of California Press

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
Gay, Telling The Truth, Libel
Larry Kramer (1990). “Reports from the Holocaust: Making of an AIDS Activist”

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