• 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
  American poet 1892-1982
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. possibility
2. dignity
3. human
4. order
5. scope

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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. by : Archibald Macleish

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