Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or crime:
“Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)