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 7, 2025

1 year ago

I will govern according to the common weal [meaning welfare], but not according to the common will.

April 1, 2025

1 year ago

The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free

July 25, 2025

1 year ago

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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