I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I talk with my hands. Some people don't like that. That's who I am. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
We, the People of this country, have no unalienable rights... all our rights are subject to modification... the Constitution of the United… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
