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.

June 26, 2025

1 year ago

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches, they will take sandwiches.

January 20, 2025

2 years ago

The key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him.

September 26, 2025

10 months ago

It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.

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