I. F. Stone

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

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

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

“Rich people march on Washington every day.”

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

“I'm working on this book on the trial of Socrates. It started out with the idea of the problem of freedom of thought...and expression...I started by spending a year on the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions, and I had a fascinating time. And then I felt I couldn't understand the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions without understanding the Reformation. When I got to the Reformation, I felt that I had to understand the premonitory movements that began in the Middle Ages. When I got there, I felt I had to understand the classical period." (quoted in Andrew Patner, I. F. Stone: A Portrait, p. 21)”

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

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