Barbara Amiel Quotes

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• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
• Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part…
• If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign…
• Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the…
• I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking…
• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little…
• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex,…
• In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
• I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is…
• All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
• Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid…
• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
• When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
• There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we…
• The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their…
• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those…
• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

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