Quotes Library

September 6, 2025

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American journalist, writer, A Guide for the Bedevilled (1947), Seldes p.177

What do you suppose caused the shipwreck? And to what sort of safety?

No doubt Jane Austen would agree that pride can be made to serve the same purpose.

June 8, 2025

9 months ago

Democracy is the process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

March 17, 2025

11 months ago

I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals rather than fighting for them

March 7, 2025

12 months ago

Men on white horses armed with simple solutions are the answer when people decide they’ve had enough of “politics as usual.”

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