Quotes from I. F. Stone

Rich people march on Washington every day.

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.

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

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

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

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

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.

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.

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

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

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

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

Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.