No Lesser Plea Quotes

“Human beings are fallible, frightened and prone to corruption.”
― Robert K. Tanenbaum, No Lesser Plea

“They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...”
― Robert K. Tanenbaum, No Lesser Plea

“It is told often proverbially: “God is not mocked,” we say, or “The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.”
― Robert K. Tanenbaum, No Lesser Plea

“Karp was an innocent and he believed in justice. That made him one of the most dangerous men in the building.”
― Robert K. Tanenbaum, No Lesser Plea

“sitting on the beach in Florida, playing”
― Robert K. Tanenbaum, No Lesser Plea

“Now it was as if, at a basketball game, one side would argue about whether the court or the ball was exactly the right size until the other team got pissed off and left, giving them the win on a forfeit.”
― Robert K. Tanenbaum, No Lesser Plea

“criminal law, a field that presented many of the same conditions and offered many of the same rewards as topflight athletics. It had the same elements of intense preparation and concentration, of confrontation in a circumscribed arena, where passion and aggression were bound by elaborate rules, of the final decision, and the emotional charge that went with it: won, lost, guilty, not guilty.”
― Robert K. Tanenbaum, No Lesser Plea