It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking or spreading rumors in the media; but saying look, we're going to starve you to death or kill you or destroy you unless you vote the way we want. I mean that's what we do.
I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
or simply:
