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 6, 2025

2 years ago

As democracy is perfected, the office of president [of the United States of America] represents

April 29, 2025

1 year ago

The market-place is a place set aside where men may deceive and overreach each other.

October 8, 2025

10 months ago

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.

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