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.

August 27, 2025

11 months ago

If…a rulership aims not at the common good of the multitude, but at the private good of the ruler, it will be an unjust and perverted rulership.

July 11, 2025

1 year ago

The character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it is done…

March 25, 2025

1 year ago

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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