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.

January 30, 2025

1 year ago

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

September 27, 2025

5 months ago

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

May 17, 2025

9 months ago

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

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