Quotes by Cockburn, Alexander




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

Cockburn, Alexander on prayer    Share

"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination."

Cockburn, Alexander on travel    Share

"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."

Cockburn, Alexander on war    Share

"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."

Cockburn, Alexander on computers    Share

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