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 11, 2025

12 months 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.

November 29, 2025

8 months ago

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

December 19, 2025

7 months ago

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

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