41 Quotes by Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider socialcontrol.

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

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.

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

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

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.

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

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

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