Alan Dershowitz Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Giving, Important

• Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Doubt, Criminals, Trials

  "Casey Anthony: The System Worked" by Alan Dershowitz, www.wsj.com. July 7, 2011.

• The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Struggle, Morality, Process

• It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Law, Principles

• Yes, believers and non-believers and skeptics can all live together and get along. But there cannot be an imperialistic imposition of religion by the state or by the church. All people must be equal--believers, skeptics, disbelievers, atheists, and those who chose religion. Unless we are all deemed equal, and unless the morality of disbelief is deemed the equivalent of the morality of belief, we will simply be tolerated, and that is not the American way.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Atheist, People, Church

• It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Morality, Difficult, New Yorkers

  Alan M. Dershowitz (1983). “The Best Defense”, Vintage

• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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