KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Alexander Cockburn Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Alexander Cockburn

Showing 1-10 of 11 Quotes by Alexander Cockburn

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

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Advocate Assassin Dagger Soldier Sword Weapon

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Imagination Lost Seeks Travel Valleys World Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Any Childish Compulsory Infection Open Prayer Religious Soul

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Confirm Contradict Existing First Journalism Law Prejudice Rather Than

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Bay Casualty First Graveyard Implies Keep Nonsense Out Peace Sick Since Stays Telling Times Truth Truth Is Us War Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: About Be Careful Become Burma Cannot Careful Lanka Malaysia Most Now Part People Remember Should Thailand Whether Sri Lanka

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Business Later Mostly Political Pose Someone Sooner Sooner Or Later Threat Try Usual Will You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Automatically Badge Citizen Environmental Suspicion Wear You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Black Communist Communist Party Concluded Edgar Had Hoover National National Security Panther Party Replaced Security Threat

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

~Alexander Cockburn

Topics: Arrest Attempt Black Crush Engineered Frequent Fbi

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: June 6th, 1941

Died: July 21st, 2012

Links

Find Alexander Cockburn on Amazon

Related Authors

Christiane Amanpour
Lionel Barber
Clive Barnes
Fiona Barton
Melvyn Bragg
Andy Coulson
Laurie Graham
Charles Edward Montague
Kim Newman
John Wilkes

Popular Authors

Bob Dylan Viktor E. Frankl Maria Montessori Bill Murray Friedrich Nietzsche J. K. Rowling William Shakespeare Margaret Thatcher

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Christmas Forgiveness God Knowledge Marriage Movies New Year's Truth