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.

September 12, 2025

11 months ago

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

November 24, 2025

8 months ago

America is still a government of the naïve, by the naïve, and for the naïve.

July 21, 2025

1 year ago

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

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