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.

August 31, 2025

1 year ago

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

February 27, 2025

2 years ago

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

June 24, 2025

1 year ago

A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.

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