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.

November 4, 2025

4 months ago

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.

April 15, 2025

10 months ago

Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people

July 27, 2025

7 months ago

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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