Great Throughts Treasury
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I. F. Stone, fully Isidor Feinstein Stone, born Isidor Feinstein
Iconoclastic American Investigative Journalist known for his self-published newsletter "I.F. Stone's Weekly"
"Funerals are always occasions for pious lying. A deep vein of superstition and a sudden touch of kindness always lead people to give the departed credit for more virtues than he possessed."
"There is no excuse for poverty in a society which can spend $80 billion a year on its war machine."
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. "
"Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. "