Lawyer Quotes

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

I am a peace supporting Jew.

Any human being has private thoughts.

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

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime.

There are many levels of truth.

The law is agnostic about truth.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.