Slander Quotes
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.
Wesley Pruden
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
William Shakespeare
No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
Blaise Pascal
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
Anne Bronte
You may have the power to slander, but I have the power not to listen to you.
Aristippus
The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.
Bernard of Clairvaux
