Advertising Quote by Claud Cockburn

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

An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions.

— Claud Cockburn

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

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

— Claud Cockburn

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

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

— Claud Cockburn

“This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one…

— claud cockburn

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used…

— Claud Cockburn

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

— Claud Cockburn

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

Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.

— Claud Cockburn

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