I. F. Stone
I. F. Stone
I. F. Stonewas an American investigative journalist and writer known as a man of great integritywho was inspiration to other writers, and an intellectual annoyance to the American right wing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 December 1907
CountryUnited States of America
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war reason treason
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.
war mean play
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
government
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
philosophy greatness college
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.
memories long virtue
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
lying slavery emancipation
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
jobs giving computer
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
news dozen littles
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
doubt trying problem
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
credit virtue crime
When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.
differences burlesque public-service
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
revolution propaganda pipe
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
movement moral mark
A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.
tragedy morality tales
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.