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.

April 28, 2025

10 months ago

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

February 28, 2025

12 months ago

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

March 17, 2025

11 months ago

I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals rather than fighting for them

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