Words matter. These are the best Slander Quotes from famous people such as Charles Caleb Colton, Daniel Cormier, Jordan Peterson, Lukas Forchhammer, Bettany Hughes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
I’m not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That’s not what I set out to do.
You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
I don’t like the whole ‘slander, slander’ conversation that most political debates are these days. So I tend to keep my political standpoint not to myself, but just relatively private.
Rumour, gossip, slander – single drops of poison can pollute an entire system.
You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person ‘white trash’ but you can’t go on television and slander a person’s career. It’s illegal, even on reality shows.
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It’s all about how you carry yourself.
A lot of the major players in the 1960s were the same as the 1940s and 1950s – Hitchen’s ‘Sleep with Slander.’ Armstong’s ‘Lemon in the Basket,’ which is a fusion of the political assassination thriller and a family drama. And Hughes’s ‘The Expendable Man.’
We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and religious vilification.
The mainstream media and most of the political establishment are too quick to slander as ‘nativist’ the advocacy of barring of Islamist radicals from legal entry into the United States.
The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.
