More - Alexander Cockburn Quotes

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin

Alexander Cockburn

 Advocate

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 every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Alexander Cockburn

 Deception War

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it

Alexander Cockburn

 Journalism

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 key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Alexander Cockburn

 Computers Words

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

 Imagination

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 out of the sick bay or the graveyard

Alexander Cockburn

 Nonsense

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Alexander Cockburn

 English Lawyer Prayer

The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.

Alexander Cockburn

 

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 should be called Sri Lanka.

Alexander Cockburn

 English Lawyer People

Why did they ban that?

Alexander Cockburn