"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense……" — Barbara Amiel
"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
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28 Quotes by Barbara Amiel
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver…
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show…
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us…
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic…
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little…
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a…
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I…
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th…
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of…
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More Century Quotes
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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