Alexander Cockburn Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 6, 1941 - July 21, 2012

Topics

TruthPeaceWarSickTruth IsFirst

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Jerry Buss

AttentionSalaryWhoAnybodyMakes

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

Jerry Della Femina

AgeForgetWhereCancelLotReaders

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research.

John Eccles

MedicalResearchControlBodySydney

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Robert Green Ingersoll

ReligionSlaveryNeverMankind

My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

Amity Gaige

FamilyMotherCityArmyBornShe

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Sophie Kinsella

LifeMusicCollegeMy LifeDoneGot

If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

Sue Johanson

LaughDoingYouSexAbout

Women liked me because I made them laugh.

Mickey Rooney

WomenMeLaughBecauseMadeLiked

I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

Montel Williams

TravelI AmBackLondonRaceEurope

I think if you believe in something hard enough, it'll work.

Joy Mangano

WorkBelieveThinkEnoughYouHard

I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

Conor McPherson

GoodPeopleListeningLuxuryWho

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Ariel Gore

DepressionSupportUnderstandingYou

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