Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. — I. F. Stone Government Copy Share Image
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. — I. F. Stone Governments Copy Share Image
Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions… — I. F. Stone Every man Copy Share Image
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. — I. F. Stone Opium Copy Share Image
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. — I. F. Stone Burlesque Copy Share Image
If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had. — I. F. Stone Accused Copy Share Image
If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie. — I. F. Stone Government Copy Share Image
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you… — I. F. Stone Fighting Copy Share Image
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. — I. F. Stone Emancipation Copy Share Image
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish… — I. F. Stone Died Copy Share Image
When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that… — I. F. Stone Blamed Copy Share Image
You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you… — I. F. Stone Asks Copy Share Image
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a… — I. F. Stone Absence Copy Share Image
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must… — I. F. Stone Free play Copy Share Image
The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no… — I. F. Stone Arms Copy Share Image
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Agony Copy Share Image
You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point… — I. F. Stone Abraham Copy Share Image
If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question. — I. F. Stone Asked Copy Share Image
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to… — I. F. Stone Atmosphere Copy Share Image
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked… — I. F. Stone Bits Copy Share Image
