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.


Art and Law, Riders on Earth (1978)

Archibald MacLeish Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...