I. F. Stone Quotations

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

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.

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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