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 17, 2025

1 year ago

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

December 10, 2025

8 months ago

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

January 26, 2025

2 years ago

The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.

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