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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
jobs giving computer
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
government
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.