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.

March 17, 2025

11 months ago

I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals rather than fighting for them

December 1, 2025

3 months ago

The voice of the people has something divine; else how could so many agree to one thing?

July 25, 2025

7 months ago

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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