Quotes about Defamation

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.

I spit upon your God!

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.