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

June 9, 2025

9 months ago

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors

April 24, 2025

10 months ago

Generosity is part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it

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