Character Assassination Quotes

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“What is the source of Character Assassination?
Jealousy. Jealousy originates from Limitation. A jealous person sees you as having a gift, skill, charisma, talent, or ability that he or she does not have. The mindset of a jealous person is manipulation. How does a Jealous Person manipulate? A Jealous Person controls a group's perception of you, the Gifted Person, by possessing a group's opinion by claiming you are full of fault.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“No one cared when you were doing nothing. If they now criticize, ridicule, & character assassinate you means you’re doing something great...”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“The saddest thing you can do as a human is to discuss one person with another for the sake of it. The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself look good. An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side. However, the WORST thing you can do is to slip in ‘little’ white lies just to save yourself from confrontations & emotional conversations.
Complain about each other to each other.
Have your freedom … G E N T L Y.
Discuss your mind – politely.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“Backstabbers and malicious people are not worth your attention, but you can thank them for deeming you worthy of theirs.”
― J.S. Wolfe, The Pathology of Innocence

“The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself look good.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“Tacit collaboration by millions who
bite their lip is even more essential than lip service by thousands of favor seekers. Hence, to stimulate at least passive cooperation, the party strives to give the impression that “everybody” is already on its side. (The Rise of Political Correctness)”
― Angelo Codevilla

“Damn! Stop criticizing the character of a donkey based on laying eggs and the character of a duck based on giving birth”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

It is ironical that we senators can in debate in the Senate, directly or indirectly, by any form of words, impute to any American who is not a senator any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming an American--and without that non-senator American having any legal redress against us--yet if we say the same thing in the Senate about our colleagues we can be stopped on the grounds of being out of order.

It is strange that we can verbally attack anyone else without restraint and with full protection, and yet we hold ourselves above the same type of criticism here on the Senate floor.”
― Margaret Chase Smith

“ Suppression Techniques
1. Making invisible: Silencing or otherwise marginalizing people in opposition by ignoring them.
2. Ridicule: Portraying the arguments of an opponent, or the opponents themselves, in a ridiculing fashion.
3. Withholding information: Excluding a person from the decision making process, or knowingly not forwarding information so as to make the person less able to make an informed choice.
4. Double bind: Punishing or otherwise belittling the actions of an opponent, regardless of how they act.
5. Heaping blame/putting to shame: Embarrassing someone or insinuating that they themselves are to blame for their position.”
― Berit As