Measure Crime

Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or crime:

    I measure myself
    Against a tall tree.
    I find that I am much taller,
    For I reach right up to the sun,
    With my eye....
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    [T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)