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.

October 21, 2025

1 year ago

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

November 17, 2025

12 months ago

The difference between a Democracy and a Dictatorship is that in a Democracy you vote first and take orders later

September 3, 2025

1 year ago

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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