Famous Quotes by I. F. Stone
- "The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure." —I F Stone on Newspapers
Wikiquote Article on I. F. Stone
Isador Feinstein Stone (better known as I.F. Stone) (1907-12-24 รข" 1989-06-18) was an iconoclastic American investigative journalist best known for his influential political newsletter, I.F. Stone's Weekly.
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- 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.
- I.F. Stone's Weekly (1954-03-15)
- Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
- I.F. Stone's Weekly (1963-01-21)
- 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.
- The Haunted Fifties (1963)
- 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.
- The Haunted Fifties (1963)
- A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.
- I.F. Stone's Weekly (1967-08-03)
- All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
- In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967 (1967), p. 317
- Lifelong dissent has more than acclimated me cheerfully to defeat. It has made me suspicious of victory. I feel uneasy at the very idea of a Movement. I see every insight degenerating into a dogma, and fresh thoughts freezing into lifeless party line.
- I.F. Stone's Bi-Weekly (1969-05-19)
- 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.
- I.F. Stone's Bi-Weekly (1971-12-14)
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- Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
- If you think you know what the answer is, you haven't asked a big enough question.
- The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
- You may just think I am a red Jew son-of-a-bitch, but I'm keeping Thomas Jefferson alive.
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