All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
quote by Ian Hislop
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
quote by Uri Geller
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If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.
quote by Mark Russell
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
quote by James Thurber
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Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
quote by Gustave Flaubert
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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
quote by Gustave Flaubert
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The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.
quote by Cliff Stearns
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
quote by Ilka Chase
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Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
quote by Henry Anatole Grunwald
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It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
quote by James Payn
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
quote by Albert Einstein (1929)
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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.
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
quote by Floyd Abrams
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
quote by J. William Fulbright
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And Yet Another Bunch Of Things You Shouldn’t Do
Never smoke cigarettes,
as they are libel to leave you
with a big bad cough.
Never eat too much
because you will get fat
in the places you did not want to.
Never use a mobile phone
as it has bad habit of talking back to you
when you do not want it to.
Never buy a car
without an engine in it,
as you won’t get very far.
Never buy a newspaper
if you want to hear good news
as you will never find it in there.
23 November 2007
poem by David Harris
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Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
quote by Stephen Leacock
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Retribution
The other day I overheard
Two woman's slanderous chatter
About another nameless soul
Who’s fortunate absence, thank god,
Spared her their injurious libel.
I thought to myself, if I had
A petty wish that would come true
I’d long for swift retribution
For malicious people like them
To receive involuntary
Volition at their own expense
By socking themselves in the face.
I wonder how many lost teeth
It would take to learn the lesson?
A lesson forsooth
Is oftentimes difficult:
Like losing a tooth
poem by Albert Ahearn
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Someone Took My Love
She cannot be mine 'cos I have no money
Her heart belongs to another
Her heart, I can never have
My heart bleeds every time I see them together
She would go alone if I were the only that be
Whisperers by her looks
She do not care, not anymore
Should I fall to the jaws of the lions
I do not even exist to her
No more does she care and no more does she worry
She would've been mine if not for your libel
And now must we end this in sand and blood
A vendetta never to cease
Till one is left standing and without strength
A duel among friends
Would die than to see her lips kissed
poem by Nicholas Boateng
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Tis With Unsweetened Revenge
If decisions are made to slander and libel,
At the expense of someone's reputation.
Anonymously!
And with projected spice.
For additional irritation!
Wouldn't that be cause for calls of public flogging?
With selected garments chosen,
To expose the butts of those caught by surprised,
With their pants down.
'Is that a 'pun'? '
No!
Sacred posteriors exposed would be puns!
This should not be debated in a court of law.
Especially if someone initiates,
The undermining of another.
With intent.
The due process this culprit should expect,
Is a tinge of unsweetened revenge...
That promotes the art of freelance butt kicking!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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