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.

September 7, 2025

1 year ago

If you want to get along, go along.

March 8, 2026

8 months ago

The terrorist and the policeman come from the same basket.

February 15, 2025

2 years ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

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