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.

May 7, 2025

10 months ago

The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor

September 26, 2025

5 months ago

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

March 12, 2025

12 months ago

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

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