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.

January 10, 2025

2 years ago

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail…In the long run of history,

August 14, 2025

12 months ago

[Notice kept on his desk while working on his biography of Lord Mountbatten] Remember.

August 20, 2025

11 months ago

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

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