Alexander Cockburn Quotes (11 Quotes)


    Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadened the senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

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

    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.

    Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.


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

    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.

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

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

    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.

    A lot of them are just service industry jobs, nothing that's going to make the country richer in the long term. Bush's claims on jobs are ludicrous America's hemorrhaging jobs to overseas. The industry face of the country has disappeared. Look at Ford Ford is about to fire 50,000 people. GM has fired 50,000. That's a total of 100,000 people. Can you imagine how many jobs that translates to


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