Quotes by Alan Dershowitz
“A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.”
“A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he’s won his case.”
“A visit to Israel is always an experience in cognitive dissonance. The Israel you personally see and hear is so completely different from the Israel you read and hear about in the media.”
“All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.”
“Any human being has private thoughts.”
“Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.”
“Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.”
“Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.”
“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.”
“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 not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, ‘It’s over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.’”