Alan Dershowitz Quotes

And Justice for Some

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

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

Not many people appear to advocate—although most a quite prepared to tolerate—a society where some people are worth less than others.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Injustice can never be stood for.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The law is cruel.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.