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.

January 15, 2025

2 years ago

Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler (1902-1982), British Conservative politician,

October 21, 2025

9 months ago

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

October 27, 2025

9 months ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

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