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.

September 27, 2025

10 months ago

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists

October 21, 2025

9 months ago

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

May 10, 2025

1 year ago

I respect fidelity to colleagues even though they are fit for the hangman.

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