Archibald Macleish: Humanity

Archibald Macleish was American poet and Librarian of Congress. Explore interesting quotes on humanity.

Archibald Macleish: 24 quotes0 likes

“We are as great as our belief in human liberty — no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.”

Archibald Macleish

Now Let Us Address the Main Question: Bicentennial of What?, New York Times (3 July 1976)

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”

Archibald Macleish

"In Praise of Dissent", New York Times (16 December 1956)

“The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life—to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.”

Archibald Macleish

Art and Law, Riders on Earth (1978)