Tao Te Ching
I. F. Stone
1907 – 1989 CE
One of the greatest 20th century reporters
Investigative journalist, author and political commentator; Stone's newsletter was ranked 2nd highest 20th century journalism publications and 16th on top 100 U.S. journalist works. He became a strong and influential voice against McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, and racism in the military. He graduated high school 49th in a class of only 52 students but during that time launched a 65+ year journalist career investigating corruption and exposing how "All governments lie."
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Unlisted Sources
I.F. Stone's Weekly
Quotes by I. F. Stone (8 quotes)
“Pasternak has universal meaning, for he embodies the fight the artist and the seeker after truth must wage everywhere against official dogma and conformist pressures.”
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“All of us who are more or less heretical in our society are forced to live on its margin, grateful that we are able to speak (at the cost of abnormal exertions) to a small audience.”
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“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.”
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“Societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas.”
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“In this age of corporation men, I am an independent capitalist, the owner of my own enterprise.”
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“Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda (1963).”
from I.F. Stone's Weekly
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“Lifelong dissent has more than acclimated me cheerfully to defeat. It has made me suspicious of victory. I feel uneasy at the very idea of a Movement. I see every insight degenerating into a dogma, and fresh thoughts freezing into lifeless party line. (1969)”
from I.F. Stone's Weekly
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Quotes about I. F. Stone (3 quotes)
“One of the great reporters of the 20th century, I.F. Stone could speak with authority, having spent seven decades exposing deception and official lies by digging deep into government documents and transcripts.”
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“In this age of corporation men, I am an independent capitalist, the owner of my own enterprise.”
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“He was a lover of freedom... a paradox. He did not add up... 'All governments lie,' Stone’s maxim, ought to be plastered across every journalist’s desk. But the lesson Stone can offer us today is mostly a reminder that we will have to rise to our own occasion, and not expect heroes from the past to guide our faltering steps”
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