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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's Popular Quotes

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

- Alan Dershowitz

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.

- 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

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

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

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

- Alan Dershowitz

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

- Alan Dershowitz

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much o…

- 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