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
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
– Alexander Cockburn
The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.
– Alexander Cockburn
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.