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

— 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.

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

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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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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