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 6, 2025

7 months ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)

January 26, 2025

1 year ago

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

May 4, 2025

10 months ago

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

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