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 21, 2025

2 years ago

I believe democracy to be of all forms of government the most natural, the most consonant with individual liberty.

February 15, 2026

8 months ago

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

December 28, 2025

10 months ago

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

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