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 12, 2025

1 year ago

It is a great error to speak of the things of this world absolutely and indiscriminately and to deal with them,

July 9, 2025

8 months ago

If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it’s ours.

February 27, 2025

12 months ago

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

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