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 27, 2025

2 years ago

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

September 11, 2025

1 year ago

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on buses and in the subway.

December 4, 2025

11 months ago

Reader, suppose you were an idiot; and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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