Alan Dershowitz Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Admitting Quotes

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

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I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

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I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private lives online. They put stuff on Facebook that 15 years from now will prevent them from getting the jobs they want. They don't understand that they are mortgaging their future for a quick laugh from a friend.

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There are many levels of truth.

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For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

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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 when we see it.

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The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

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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 excesses of the federal government.

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Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

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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 with that.

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Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

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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 clients.

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The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.

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Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

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In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

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Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

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

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