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 25, 2025

1 year ago

I am a revolutionist by birth, reading and principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists because there

October 27, 2025

9 months ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

July 24, 2025

1 year ago

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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