quotes about Libel
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
-- Bill Moyers -
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 CokeSource : 77 Eng. Rep. 250, 1605.
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The greater the truth the greater the libel.
-- Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough -
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
-- Ian Hislop -
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The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.
-- Jean GionoSource : Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.36, Northwestern University Press
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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
-- John Selden -
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 -
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
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If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
-- Mark Russell