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 15, 2025

1 year ago

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

March 13, 2025

2 years ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

April 8, 2025

2 years ago

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

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