All Alexander Cockburn Quotes
- So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive… Addictive
- The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. Confirm
- A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… Abomination
- The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. Imagination
- Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea… Accusation
- Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: Central
- No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry. Aware
- A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. Any
- Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and… Become Thailand
- There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a… Annulled
- Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too Barbarous
- They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays… Bay
- Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years… Been
- Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you. Business
- By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security. Black
- In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts. Arrests
- England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke,… Blitz
- The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. Advocate