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.

June 16, 2025

1 year ago

Do not believe those who say they have voluntarily relinquished power and position for love of peace and quiet.

May 21, 2025

1 year ago

There never was any government so purely popular, as not to require the exclusion of the poor

September 4, 2025

11 months ago

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best coloured man

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