Defamatory Quotes

#1. All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'

Martin Amis

#2. No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

Don Feder

#3. Anybody who understands how a movie gets made understands that a deep-pockets player is not going to make a movie that has anything defamatory in it without protections.

Scott Rudin

#4. We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

Emilio Estefan

#5. Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles?

Nicholas Kristof

#6. Mike Adams' assertion that I grabbed Chelsea's (backside) is both false and defamatory. I think we can all agree that Chelsea is not nearly as hot as Ms. Lewinski. The charges simply lack any indicia of credibility. I demand an apology. And I also demand a cigar.

William J. Clinton

#7. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

George Lillo

#8. Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
[Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#11. I'm not a psychopath; my brain just works a little differently than that of the average person.

J. Cornell Michel

#12. It's OK to not be OK

Robin Benway

#13. Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.

Timothy Noah

#14. Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Barack Obama

#15. I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

Bryan Stevenson

#16. 'Ray Donovan' is such a revelation to everybody who's working on it, and it's only getting better.

Steven Bauer

#17. But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

Peter Shaffer

#18. I don't know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

Terence McKenna

#19. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#20. The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Chris Stapleton