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

12 months ago

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

November 28, 2025

3 months ago

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

April 7, 2025

11 months ago

What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be true.

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