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.

October 20, 2025

9 months ago

Universal suffrage [i.e., votes for all adult men and women] is the government of a house by its nursery.

April 25, 2025

1 year ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

March 14, 2025

1 year ago

[Of political life] The hatreds which sound so real when you read the words, which look so true when you see their scornful attitudes

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