Alan Dershowitz Justice Quotations

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.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

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.

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.

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

Nobody wants justice.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.