Quotations by Author

Archibald MacLeish

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

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

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

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.