Alan Dershowitz Quotes

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

The truth will only be told over a career.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

It is the oldest story in the coverage of Government: The failure to tell the truth.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another. You can't judge the many by the actions of a few. What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media. All these places I go, people say that America is good and I'm like, "Well, thank you, I'm glad you can see it." And you know - we are good, we've just got work to do.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.