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Alexander Cockburn Quotes

1941–2012 Scotland

Alexander Claud Cockburn [pronounced koh-burn] (June 6, 1941 – July 21, 2012) was a Scottish-born political journalist who was raised in Ireland and has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together, with Jeffrey St.

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

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world’s present warming trend.

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.

No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

There is more evil in one second of the history of the Roman Catholic Church than there is in the entire lifetime of Scientology.

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

More magazine (1974)

No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.

America is well on its way to making it illegal to say anything nasty about gays, Jews, blacks and women. “Hate speech,” far short of any direct incitement to violence, is on the edge of being criminalized, with the First Amendment gone the way of the dodo.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Cockburn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.