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Wikipedia Summary for I. F. Stone
Isidor Feinstein "I. F." Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989) was an American investigative journalist, writer, and author.
Known for his politically progressive views, Stone is best remembered for I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–71), a newsletter ranked 16th among the top hundred works of journalism in the U.S., in the twentieth century, by the New York University journalism department, in 1999; and second place among print journalism publications. Stone's reputation has been dogged by allegations of contact with or espionage for the Soviet Union.
It was hard to listen to Goldwater and realize that a man could be half Jewish and yet sometimes appear twice as dense as the normal Gentile.
We simply find ourselves -- as if trapped in a metaphysical maze -- coming back century after century, though in a spiral of increasing sophistication and complexity, to the same half dozen basic answers worked out by the ancient Greek philosophers.
The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.
The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called the significant trifle -- the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.
The Eichmann trial taught the world the banality of evil. Nixon is teaching the world the evil of banality.
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.
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.
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.
You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch
and asks your opinion, you're sunk.
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.
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
Rich people march on Washington every day.
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.