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Top 20 Alexander Cockburn Quotes (2025 Update)

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination.”

1. “The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences.”

5. “The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.”

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.”

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.”

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.”

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:.”

12. “Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.”

13. “Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.”

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.”

15. “Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.”

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon’s centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don’t work, against threats that don’t exist?”

17. “Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon’s centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don’t work, against threats that don’t exist?”

— Alexander Cockburn

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

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “There’s a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.”

19. “There’s a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They’re like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.”

20. “Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They’re like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.”

— Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quote: “No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.”

21. “No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.”

— Alexander Cockburn

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