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.

September 22, 2025

10 months ago

The professional politician can sympathize with the professional advertiser

December 9, 2025

8 months ago

…the best is often unattainable, and therefore the true legislator and statesman ought to be acquainted

October 30, 2025

9 months ago

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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