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.

October 16, 2025

1 year ago

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

January 15, 2025

2 years ago

Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler (1902-1982), British Conservative politician,

April 28, 2025

2 years ago

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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