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Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

— I. F. Stone

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There’s a lot of things those journalists know, that I don’t know, but a lot of it is wrong.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

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

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

The Haunted Fifties (1963)

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