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.

May 9, 2025

10 months ago

No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him

March 13, 2025

12 months ago

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

February 9, 2025

1 year ago

In framing a government, which is to administered by men, over men, the great difficulty lies in this

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