177 Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

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.

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.

Nobody gets immunity from perjury. If he testified falsely, he would be prosecuted. It's hard for me to make a judgment because I don't know what's true and what's false.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

I would bet you there weren't more than 20 or 30 people who read it.

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

The prosecution lost its credibility by putting a man on the witness stand who lied about the 'n' word.