… an enemy within the gates, doing more harm than good.
On the BBC during World War II:
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.
The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
…the statements to the World and News consist simply of a string of infamous libels.
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
If someone is trying to frame you, don't you want to know who, what, when, where and why?
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
You can't call someone a fraud, a liar, and a fake and hide under the First Amendment.
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words.
A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.
Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
I'm alright with people making up stuff about me, but not when there's a woman involved.
I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.
I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.
The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.