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 8, 2026

8 months ago

The terrorist and the policeman come from the same basket.

September 15, 2025

1 year ago

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.

March 7, 2025

2 years ago

Men on white horses armed with simple solutions are the answer when people decide they’ve had enough of “politics as usual.”

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