I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
African-Americans are as fair as any other group, but they bring their life experiences to bear as just as whites bring their… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.' — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share
