I.F. Stone Quotes

To be happy, make other people happy.

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Lay low, play dumb, keep moving.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

Make the world better.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Unless you can fake sincerity, you'll get nowhere in this business.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you're not, so I'm me and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me.

One can never have enough socks

I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

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

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

Little hinges swing big doors.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.