#er

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#events #feel #feelings #journalism #look

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

#call #confusion #dignity #even #give

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#certainly #get #people #politicians #purpose

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#action #been #few #foolish #many

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#better #his #ideas #life #lived

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#american dream #dream #freedom #humanity #liberation

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#american dream #dream #freedom #humanity #i

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#difficulties #great #where #willingness

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#bright #brothers #cold #earth #eternal