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.

March 16, 2025

1 year ago

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

October 23, 2025

9 months ago

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

August 10, 2025

12 months ago

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant.

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