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 30, 2026

2 months ago

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

March 29, 2026

7 months ago

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

January 15, 2025

2 years ago

Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler (1902-1982), British Conservative politician,

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