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.

September 3, 2025

6 months ago

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

July 20, 2025

7 months ago

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.

July 24, 2025

7 months 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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