Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
I. F. StoneIf God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
I. F. StoneAll governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
I. F. StoneThe only kinds of fights worth fighting are those youโre going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.
I. F. StoneVictor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.
I. F. Stone