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.

July 8, 2025

8 months ago

…see how sensitive the citizens become: they chafe impatiently at the least touch of authority and at length

May 19, 2025

9 months ago

Let me…warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

November 2, 2025

4 months ago

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity

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