The travel writer seeks the world we have lost—the lost valleys of the imagination.
—Alexander Claud Cockburn
Topics: Travel, Tourism
There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.
—Alexander Claud Cockburn
Topics: Computers
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 Claud Cockburn
Topics: War
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
—Alexander Claud Cockburn
Topics: Prayer
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- Howard Zinn American Historian, Activist
- Jeannette Rankin American Politician
- Barbara Ehrenreich American Social Critic
- Jane Addams American Social Reformer
- Helen Gurley Brown American Publisher
- Herbert Hoover American Statesman
- Norman Mailer American Novelist, Journalist
- Robert Anton Wilson American Polymath
- John Cage American Composer
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