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Isidor Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989), better known as I. F. Stone, was a politically radical American investigative journalist and writer.

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You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.

Cannibalism, Commandment, Down, Impact, Men, Views

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.

Lunch, Opinion, State, States, Sunk

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

Pipe, Propaganda, Revolution, Time

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.

Assumes, Beings, Deviltry, Men, Optimistic, Technology

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.

Credit, Crime, Old, Virtue, Young

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

Enough, Final, Finals, Question, Results, Work

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

Doubt, Equitable, Idaho, Say, Trying

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.

American, Concern, Dozen, Honorable, Liberty, News

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.

Mean, Play, Shut, Societies, Subversive, War

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Believed, Freedom, Life, Run, Running, Say

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Easily, Freedom, Lie, Lying, Slavery

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

Reason, Regarded, Treason, War

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.

Government Lies, Governments, Know, Lying, Two, Words

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Ethnocentric, Imbecility, Mark, Moral, Movement

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

Country, Disaster, Government Lies, Lies, Lying, Same

Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

Artist, Integrity, Power, Serge, Time, Years

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.

Atmosphere, College, Greatness, Philosophy, Teach, Thought

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

Morality, Tale, Tales, Tragedy

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