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  • There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.

    I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.27, PublicAffairs
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