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.

November 30, 2025

11 months ago

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

April 3, 2025

2 years ago

The Press, my Lords, is one of our great out-sentries; if we remove it, if we hoodwink it

August 1, 2025

1 year ago

The greatest gift of any statesman rests not in knowing what concessions to make, but recognizing when to make them.

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