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.

December 2, 2025

3 months ago

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

July 25, 2025

7 months ago

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

February 21, 2025

1 year ago

I believe democracy to be of all forms of government the most natural, the most consonant with individual liberty.

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