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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.

I. F. Stone's Popular Quotes

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

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

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Rich people march on Washington every day.

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A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

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

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When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

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

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

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

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