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
country lying government-lies
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
march-on-washington people rich
Rich people march on Washington every day.
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.
integrity artist russia
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.
lunch opinion belts
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.
tragedy morality tales
History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.
optimistic technology men
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.
reality political facts
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.
finals enough bigs
If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.
revolution propaganda pipe
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
war reason treason
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.
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.
movement moral mark
A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.
struggle fighting winning
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.