Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is t...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Nobody gets immunity from perjury. If he testified falsely, he would be prosecuted. It's hard for me...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Summers committed the cardinal sin against the academic hard left. He expressed politically incorrec...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The jury concluded that Fuhrman planted the glove.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show ho...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The count is going to go on. That doesn't mean my clients will be satisfied with the count. If the c...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ By allowing his client to be sworn under oath about his private sex life, he made a terrible, terrib...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The prosecution lost its credibility by putting a man on the witness stand who lied about the 'n' wo...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purpos...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom o...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to bala...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicabl...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the inter...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for ki...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to devel...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, b...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think i...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go fr...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate tr...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for s...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the wo...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming,...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of th...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must chec...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in ther...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terri...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and whic...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially Amer...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it'...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the co...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, be...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and f...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't n...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The Internet knows no national borders.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Buchanan infamously quipped: “There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt wi...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, th...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of acade...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scien...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous n...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and t...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the Fir...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual pr...
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it'...
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ We wouldn't even know where to look to find the law because there is no law.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline."
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The best answer to bad speech is good speech
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing th...
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully ...
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is t...
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ I would bet you there weren't more than 20 or 30 people who read it.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY We don't believe isolated testimony on cross examination by one of our witnesses had such an impact ...
ALAN CURRY We are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.
ALAN CURRY The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriat...
ALAN CURRY I would anticipate this case is going to have to be retried.
ALAN CURRY It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standa...
ALAN DAVIDSON We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a ...
ALAN CURTIS One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, the...
ALAN CURTIS [Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future...
ALAN CURTIS But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth stra...
ALAN CURTIS If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America,
ALAN CURTIS This is an unusual case, but the state has previously shown that the defendant knew that her conduct...
ALAN CURRY It is kind-of the same issue, but they have added a couple of different elements to it, a couple of ...
ALAN CURRY The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to...
ALAN CURRY He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.
ALAN DAVIES I think a lot of people feel it would be a mistake.
ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers need to be notified when and what location information is collected,
ALAN DAVIDSON Consumers won't use systems they don't trust. Location services monitor movement and habits, somethi...
ALAN DAVIDSON From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.
ALAN DAVIDSON This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards...
ALAN DAVIDSON They admitted to making a huge mistake and they said they'd pay the money back, ... They showed some...
ALAN DAVIDSON it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill.
ALAN DAVIDSON We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracki...
ALAN DAVIDSON I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.
ALAN DAVIDSON It's been a long time coming. Thank God for this day.
ALAN CROTZER Here I am trying to build a life and I have nothing to build it with. It's wrong, just wrong.
ALAN CROTZER If you really want the truth, leave no stone unturned.
ALAN CROTZER There ain't no compensation for what they done to me. But I'm not bitter.
ALAN CROTZER Especially when it comes to sex offenses, history is a big predictor of the future,
ALAN CROPSEY When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,
ALAN CROPSEY Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start ou...
ALAN CROPSEY He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.
ALAN CROPSEY When you have a chance to make plays and don't, you can almost be assured the final score will not f...
ALAN CRAWFORD You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or th...
ALAN CRAWFORD Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 ...
ALAN CULPEPPER