31 Quotes by I. F. Stone

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.

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.

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

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

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.

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.

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.