I. F. STONE 1907-1989—“The Trial of Socrates””Underground to Palestine”.
WHEN WAR COMES REASON IS REGARDED AS TREASON.
RICH PEOPLE MARCH ON WASHINGTON EVERY DAY.
ALL GOVERNMENTS ARE RUN BY LIARS AND NOTHING THEY SAY SHOULD BE BELIEVED.
THERE MUST BE renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas — every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.
IF YOU EXPECT to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.
EVERY EMANCIPATION has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie.
HISTORY IS A TRAGEDY NOT A MORALITY TALE.
A CERTAIN MORAL IMBECILITY MARKS ALL ETHNOCENTRIC MOVEMENTS.
EVERYMAN 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.