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.

July 18, 2025

7 months ago

I pay my tax bills more readily than any others—for whether the money is well or ill spent

December 28, 2025

2 months ago

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

December 14, 2025

2 months ago

No example is so dangerous, as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

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