Alan Dershowitz Quotes, Able Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Able Quotes , Firsts Quotes

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Lasts Quotes , Court Quotes

I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Real Quotes , Law Quotes

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 pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Mean Quotes , Government Quotes

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Would Be Quotes

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Suffering Quotes

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Iran Quotes , United States Quotes

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Answers Quotes , Speech Quotes

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 a Palestinian state.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , States Quotes , Palestinian Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Opinion Quotes , Synagogue Quotes

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 to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Kings Quotes , Powerful Quotes

Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. 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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Political Quotes

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , War Quotes , Law Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Morality Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Democracy Quotes , Trying Quotes

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , School Quotes , Needs Quotes

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Israel Quotes , Issues Quotes

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Believe Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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 be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Numbers Quotes , Justice Quotes