Adversity Quote by Alan Dershowitz Download Open image “All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.” — Alan Dershowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Sides Trials Truth Two sides Want
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I know that every trial requires fairness and truth. Any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered fair or just. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
“Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, “the courtroom oath—‘to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will… — David Rosenfelt Copy Share Image
A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it. — Gabrielle Bernstein 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
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
