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“Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.”
Alexander Cockburn“Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.”
Alexander Cockburn“This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if only we seize it with both hands, and make the most of it'. A month later in New York I was telling this story to Mr John Walter, minority owner of The Times. He asked me why I had not written the Capone interview for the paper. I explained that when I had come to put my notes together, I saw that most of what Capone had said was in essence identical with what was being said in the leading articles of The Times itself, and I doubted whether the paper would be best pleased to find itself seeing eye to eye with the most notorious gangster in Chicago.”
Claud Cockburn“Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.”
Patrick Cockburn“One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all”
Bruce Cockburn“All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.”
Bruce Cockburn“Why did you become a journalist?”“Better than working for a living.”
Leslie Cockburn, Baghdad Solitaire“No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.”
Alexander Cockburn, Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era“Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:”
Alexander Cockburn, Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era“Legend tells us that the High King of Tara, who ruled supreme over all the Kings of Ireland, looked out from his castle one day during the festival of Eostre and saw a fire blazing away on a far hillside. Furious with this obvious disregard for the law, for which the penalty was death, he sent out soldiers to arrest the guilty party. When the soldiers arrived at the hillside they found St Patrick, the patron Saint of Ireland, piling wood onto his fire and immediately seized him. Standing before the King he was asked why he disobeyed the law, and he explained that his fire was a sign that Christ had risen from the dead and was the light of the world. The King so admired Patrick’s courage that he forgave him and became a convert to Christianity!”
Carole Carlton, Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year