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.

April 15, 2025

2 years ago

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

January 21, 2025

2 years ago

The quality of legislation passed to deal with a problem is inversely proportional to the volume of media clamor that brought it on.

March 7, 2025

2 years ago

Men on white horses armed with simple solutions are the answer when people decide they’ve had enough of “politics as usual.”

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