Alan Dershowitz Quotes


Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.


Citations

Dershowitz, Alan. Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights. Basic Books, 2004, p. 28.

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Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz
  • Born: September 1, 1938
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Former Felix Frankfurter Professor Law At Harvard Law School

Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, and for controversial political views.