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.

April 23, 2025

2 years ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

August 11, 2025

1 year ago

We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that will conflicts with those interests.

February 22, 2025

2 years ago

The majority is the best way, because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

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