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.

February 7, 2025

1 year ago

I will govern according to the common weal [meaning welfare], but not according to the common will.

August 22, 2025

11 months ago

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

November 24, 2025

8 months ago

America is still a government of the naïve, by the naïve, and for the naïve.

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