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I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.
While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.
The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
Calling anyone hurtful names is ... bullying.
Hating and abusing someone ... is bullying.
All Bullying is harmful & wrong!
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
it undermines personal
Ruining people. I love the way the phrase rolls around on my tongue and inside my mouth. Ruining people is delicious. We're all hungry, empaths and sociopaths. We want to consume.
People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.
There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little
There is something indecent in words .
Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.
It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case it directly impacts on my relief work and damages my reputation as an artist. The harm done is often difficult to repair.
The truth has become an insult.
There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault.
There is no need to slander the nimit (one who is instrumental), it is only necessary to distance yourself from that nimit.
If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.
Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!
Behind every crime lies an insult
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Criticize the act, not the person.
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
Vilification, by its definition, creates an antagonistic struggle, an us-versus-them mentality, that throws us all into a senseless battle-royale
As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.
Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them.
Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.
False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.
Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself.
People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
It's ridiculous to accept on a blog or in a forum speech what would be seen as hooliganism or delinquency if practiced in a public space."37
The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.
If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offence. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and reacting.
Whence proceeds this weight we lay
On what detracting people say?
Their utmost malice cannot make
Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
Or put one feature out of place.
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.
Flattery ... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.
you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could at the very least ruin someone's day, or worse, break someone's heart, or simply change someone from being a future ally of yours to someone who will never forget
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
praise publicly, but criticize privately.
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
Such public shaming is rampant and sometimes appropriate, but unfortunately, in recent years, shaming has morphed into coordinated reputation murders, and anyone who is slightly insensitive or not PC enough can be led to a public character lynching without due process.
Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.
Never be a slanderous voice that hides in the darkness.
To be defined by another is the worst form of abuse
Never criticize. Remember that no one deserves it more than the one who is criticizing.
I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing ... My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience.
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,
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Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.
In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.
I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.
We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.
When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?
Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
People who write poisonous things about your work are using up precious moments of their life dwelling on yours. These are moments they will never get back. Let that be a comfort to you.
There are two ways to react to criticism and the wrong one is to be offended.
We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already.
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.
Finding someone to put down, judge, or criticize becomes a way to get out of the web or call attention away from our box. If you're doing worse than I am at something, I think, my chances of surviving are better.
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.
I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that can send the message that it is acceptable to hate.
But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her spirit, are simply trying to hide their fragile egos.
It's a special form of humiliation, being judged by the things you can't change.
As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them.
I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.
Derision is the refuge of threatened ignorance, after all.