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Quotes about Defamation

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- Job 17:6
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
- Job 19:5
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
- Psalm 109:2
And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.
- Luke 22:65
I spit upon your God!
- William Golding
To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.
- George Washington
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.
- Gary Thomas
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
- Abraham Lincoln
The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
- John Calvin
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.
- Elton John
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
- George Washington
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.
- Ayn Rand