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One Quotes by Alan Dershowitz
- Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history;…
- Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other…
- I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.
- Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If…
- A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
- I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
- I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.
- Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
- For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because…
- 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,…
- I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle