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I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws ... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
— Alan Dershowitz
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
— Alan Dershowitz
The law is agnostic about truth.
— Alan Dershowitz
I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.
— Alan Dershowitz
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
— Alan Dershowitz
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
— Alan Dershowitz
I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.
— Alan Dershowitz
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
— Alan Dershowitz
Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.
— Alan Dershowitz
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
— Alan Dershowitz
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
— Alan Dershowitz
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
— Alan Dershowitz
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
— Alan Dershowitz
I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
— Alan Dershowitz
The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.
— Alan Dershowitz
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
— Alan Dershowitz
It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
— Alan Dershowitz
I've always worked.
— Alan Dershowitz
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.
— Alan Dershowitz
It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.
— Alan Dershowitz
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
— Alan Dershowitz
Question authority; but, raise your hand first.
— Alan Dershowitz
A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.
— Alan Dershowitz
The pervasiveness of guns in our society is destroying America.
— Alan Dershowitz
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
— Alan Dershowitz
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.
— Alan Dershowitz
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
— Alan Dershowitz
I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.
— Alan Dershowitz
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
— Alan Dershowitz
All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
— Alan Dershowitz
I talk with my hands. Some people don't like that. That's who I am.
— Alan Dershowitz
The Internet knows no national borders.
— Alan Dershowitz
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
— Alan Dershowitz
Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
— Alan Dershowitz
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
— Alan Dershowitz
There's simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.
— Alan Dershowitz
Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
— Alan Dershowitz
My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
— Alan Dershowitz
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
— Alan M. Dershowitz
Any human being has private thoughts.
— Alan Dershowitz
The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.
— Alan Dershowitz
I am a peace supporting Jew.
— Alan Dershowitz
Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.
— Alan Dershowitz
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.
— Alan Dershowitz
I learn from experience.
— Alan Dershowitz
There are many levels of truth.
— Alan Dershowitz
I love the Bible.
— Alan Dershowitz
The best answer to bad speech is good speech
— Alan Dershowitz
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.
— Alan Dershowitz
When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.
— Alan Dershowitz
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
— Alan Dershowitz
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
— Alan Dershowitz
Well you know, all law is about injustice.
— Alan Dershowitz
There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.
— Alan Dershowitz
The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.
— Alan Dershowitz
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
— Alan Dershowitz
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.
— Alan Dershowitz
If America has the right to target Osama bin Laden, or terrorists, of course Israel has the right to defend itself from terrorism.
— Alan Dershowitz
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.
— Alan Dershowitz
I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.
— Alan Dershowitz
It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
— Alan Dershowitz
I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.
— Alan Dershowitz
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
— Alan Dershowitz
Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
— Alan Dershowitz
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.
— Alan Dershowitz
