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 31, 2025

2 months ago

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

February 19, 2025

1 year ago

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

December 26, 2025

2 months ago

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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