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.

February 15, 2025

1 year ago

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do;

March 16, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 25, 2025

1 year ago

When I was a boy I was told that anyone could become President.

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