Alan Dershowitz Quotes

Much law, but no justice.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

The law is cruel.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Much law, but little justice.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Equality is a monster.

Do not take bribes, for they blind the clear-eyed and upset the pleas of the just.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.