All Alan Dershowitz Quotes
- Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern. Aspiration
- Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is. Democracies
- Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Beyond
- The Internet knows no national borders. Borders
- The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. Agnostic
- The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process. Inspirational
- The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. Assuming
- There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. American
- You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that. Absolutely
- Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer,… Akin
- For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because… Abide
- Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot… Authorize
- 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 important… Conceive
- If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense… Attorney
- It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being… Decades
- We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of… Act
- You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the… Began
- Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was… Able
- Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should… All
- I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would… Authority
- I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an… Abortion
- I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer… Cent
- I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence,… Among
- I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making… Based
- I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate. Appearance