Alexander Cockburn Quotes
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.15, Verso
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
More Magazine, 1974.
New Statesman and Society (Magazine), February 8, 1991.
Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.189, Verso
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.182, Verso
"Press Clips". The Village Voice, January 21, 1980.
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.95, Verso
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.
Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.185, Verso