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Top 20 I. F. Stone Quotes (2025 Update)

I. F. Stone Quote: “If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.”

4. “The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “Rich people march on Washington every day.”

7. “Rich people march on Washington every day.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.”

10. “When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.”

13. “History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.”

14. “A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.”

16. “Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.”

19. “The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.”

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.”

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

— I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— I. F. Stone

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