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.

April 19, 2026

3 months ago

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

July 11, 2025

1 year ago

The character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it is done…

September 23, 2025

10 months ago

Almost all that has been done for the good of the people has been done since the rich lost the monopoly of power

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