Alan Dershowitz Quotes

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.

Humility, we say, is very important because we feel humility means the ability to listen, the ability to respect another's opinion and to find that everybody around you in some subject knows more.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

For me, there is only love and fear.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.