Alan Dershowitz Quotes

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

"I would be prosecuted and imprisoned if I did what you did." Again, different strokes for the Clintons, look what happened they get a pass, they get to collect all the paychecks and get all the glory, and get the cash while the rest of the people are suffering or dying in Benghazi.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

The one thing I like about being a celebrity more than anything is being able to get into any restaurant I want.

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Impunity for the great thief, and jail for the thief who steals a loaf.

The thing that is wrong with the Uniform Code of Military Justice is that it is not uniformly applied

The fact that people would receive widely disparate sentences in different parts of the country was untenable.

I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

And Justice for Some

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

People who make off with large sums of money escape justice or get insignificant sentences, while the thief who steals a handbag … gets six years…. In the United States, Nixon quit for far less.

People who are wealthy tend to be treated much more fairly in our criminal justice system.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.

We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.

I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.

They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.