Alan Dershowitz Quotes

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.

Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

Moral teaching should always be used as a gift and not a cudgel.... It is important that we all be able to share our moral viewpoints without hurting each other. That is what is wrong with political discourse today.

We are the only country that allows and protects hate speech.

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

Americans have fought and died around the globe to protect the right of all people to express their views, even views that we profoundly disagree with. We do not do so because we support hateful speech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacity of each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened. We do so because in a diverse society, efforts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!

I love free speech.