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.

February 28, 2025

2 years ago

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but a mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature,

April 7, 2025

2 years ago

What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be true.

March 3, 2025

2 years ago

‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’ ‘No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country’

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