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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.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Leadership
#More
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We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
- Alan Dershowitz
#Freedom Of Speech
#Freedom
#Important
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
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#Moral
#Political
The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Me
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#School
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Government
#Great
#Independence
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
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#Mistake
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#Worst
Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Computers
#Evidence
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#Who
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Jury
#Truth
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Character
#Difficult
#Good
#Us
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Better
#Free
#Innocent
#Person
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Legal
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#Science
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
- Alan Dershowitz
#Freedom Of Speech
#Freedom
#Speech
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
- Alan Dershowitz
#Fear
#Freedom Of Speech
#Freedom
#Speech
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.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Morality
#Principles
#Target
#War
In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Support
#Today
#Truth
#World
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Firing
#Freedom
#Professors
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Face
#Others
#Real
#Reward
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.
- Alan Dershowitz
#Doing
#Family
#Me
#Poor
#School
#Time
If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Care
#Guilty
#Talk
#Truth
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#He
#Lawyer
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#Up
I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Innocence
#Law
#Science
#Truth
When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Everyone
#Intolerance
#Terrible
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.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Government
#Media
#School
#Well
I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.
- Alan Dershowitz
#Anything
#Get
#Money
#Never
#Paid
You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#God
#Know
#Me
#Reason
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.
- Alan Dershowitz
#Freedom Of Speech
#Freedom
#Government
It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Law
#Lawyer
#React
#Shape
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying you're moral is not the same as acting morally.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Back
#Ground
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#Way
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Innocent
#Just
#Like
#Terrorism
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
- Alan Dershowitz
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#Justice
#Legal
#Link
#System
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