The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
“This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if only we seize it with both hands, and make the most of it'. A month later in New York I was telling this story to Mr John Walter, minority owner… — claud cockburn Copy Share
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share
A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
