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Alan Dershowitz

(1938) Art Collector United States

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Alan Dershowitz says there is perfect injustice, which we recognize when we see it, even though perfect justice does not exist. He argues that if torture is ever used as a last‑resort measure in a ticking‑bomb scenario, it must be done openly and with accountability. He also states that the Second Amendment has no place in modern society, calling it outdated.

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Alan Dershowitz is an art collector from the United States, best known for Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo.

Quick Facts About Alan Dershowitz

Born: September 1, 1938
Nationality: United States
Profession: Art Collector
Notable works: Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo

About Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor who has taught at Harvard Law School. He is known for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law and often appears as a media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University

Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

Nobody wants justice.

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Justice

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I love the Bible.

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Bible

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I am a peace supporting Jew.

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Israel

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I've always worked.

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There are many levels of truth.

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I learn from experience.

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Education

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The law is agnostic about truth.

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Agnostic

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It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

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A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

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I talk with my hands. Some people don't like that. That's who I am.

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“grand jury indictment is not a conviction.”

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Conviction

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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime.

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Amendment

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Any human being has private thoughts.

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Human

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I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

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Academic

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The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

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Character

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I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

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There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it…

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Absolutes

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The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

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Constitution

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It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

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Dream

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You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree…

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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

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Communication

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I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes…

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Enemy

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Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

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It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all…

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Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card,…

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Accusation

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When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school,…

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Camp counselors

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Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised…

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Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a…

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Before death

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I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in…

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“I learned at that time, for an absolute certainty, that I did not believe in an intervening God, since I did not…

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Time

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The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important…

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Challenges

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Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion…

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Atheist

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Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or…

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Amendments

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But the United States is neither a Christian nation nor the exclusive home of any particular religious group. Non-Christians are not guests.…

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Administration

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“I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, "Harvard didn't want me." I said…

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“This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too often drowned out by the exaggerations, demonizations,…

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Bias

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The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive…

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Blasphemy

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We live in an age where there is both more expression and more self-censorship than existed even a decade ago. Alas, laws…

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Age

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Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should…

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Amendment

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The Internet knows no national borders.

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Borders

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