{"quotes":[{"text":"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.","author":"Alice Roosevelt Longworth","tags":["gossip","humor","slander"],"id":2485,"author_id":"Alice+Roosevelt+Longworth"},{"text":"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["dishonesty","good-name","libel","reputation","shakespeare","slander","society","standing","theft","value","values"],"id":5918,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If one day, God should mute all words, thoughts and actions, the world will look so different! If we are privileged to have them, let us try as possible as we can to use them well, for life will be something without words, thought and actions!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["food-for-thought","good-and-bad-actions","slander"],"id":6918,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["deceit","good-deeds","gossip","libel","lies","media","news","propaganda","sensationalism","slander","society","story","unsung"],"id":19723,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A coward talks to everyone but YOU.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anxiety","cheats","competition","coward","defaming","evil-women","fake-christians","false-information","fear","games","gossips","heartless","insecure-women","jealous-women","jealousy","liars","low-self-esteem","paranoid-men","rumors","sisterinlaws","sisters","slander","stalkers","weak"],"id":26176,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["enlightended","slander","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":30302,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["certainty","deceit","falsehood","gossip","honesty","humility","information","know-it-alls","law","libel","lies","misinformation","moral","mystery","not-knowing","policy","principle","propaganda","rule","silence","sincerity","slander","truth","uncertainty","uncertainty-principle"],"id":34086,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["life","new-birth","slander","spiritual","spirituality"],"id":35991,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["castaway","fame","friendship","getaway","gossip","impersonal","impersonal-world","island","libel","loneliness","misunderstood","personal","personal-world","propaganda","relationships","repetition","rumors","slander","solitude","tropical","vacation","world"],"id":41057,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... But, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["behaviour","books","character","clichés","conduct","double-standards","empowerment","expectations","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","impartiality","inequality","insults","men","misogyny","morality","preconceptions","prejudice","reality-check","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":42025,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":82,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}