Alan Dershowitz Quotes

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.