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.

August 20, 2025

12 months ago

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

December 14, 2025

8 months ago

No example is so dangerous, as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

August 16, 2025

12 months ago

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

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