Quotes by Barbara Amiel - Page 1

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
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Free World
Rhetoric
World
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Liberty
Virtue
Extent
Vice
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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Today
World
World Today
Today World Free
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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World Will Children
Devour
World Children Will
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Mafia
Members
Protects
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Century
Feudalism
Totalitarianism
Twelfth
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
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Surprise
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Alas
Common
Crime
Free World
World
Dictatorial
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Right Wing
Today
West
Wings
Dictatorships
Prisoners
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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Complicity
Destruction
Liberty
Phenomenon
Share
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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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Empires
Europe
Evident
Soviet
Soviet Union
Unions
Empire
Gain
Maintain
Union
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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Barbarians
Canada
Wall
Western
Western World
World
Walls
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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
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Century
Communist
Movement
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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 walls.
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Aim
Barbarians
Domination
Wall
World
World Domination
Closer
Escaped
Europeans
Unlike
Walls
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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 policy.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Independence
America
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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 to people.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Journey
Opportunity
Classic
Country
Enough
Lucky
Talking
Had
Across
Enduring
Opportunity Country People
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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 of subservience on the part of those who approach it.
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Inspire
Self Confidence
Sexy
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Destructive
Dozen
Expanding
Soviet
World War Ii
Empire
Malevolent
Swallowed
Walls
World War
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Apartheid
Latin
Latin America
Military
South Africa
Wall
Africa
Dictators
Regime
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Walls
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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 own inefficient empire.
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Running
Benefits
Country
Soviet
Soviet Union
Benefit
Controlling
Developed
Developed Countries
Empire
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Interests
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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 have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
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Morning
Exposure
Ideas
Style
Vancouver
Confront
Deplorable
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Webster
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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, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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Ashamed
Fatigue
Inevitable
Recycling
Speech
Vortex
Thoughts
Speeches
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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Camps
Cutting
Harassment
Labour
Life Simple People
Dictatorships
Expedient
Sexual
Mention
Sending
Trial
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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Ideology
Vision
Distorted
Cure
Fraudulent
Occur
Solution
Wrongs
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Prisoner
Revolution
Political People Will
Bolshevik
Historians
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Trial
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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 understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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Chronology
Confusion
Ideas
Peculiar
Progress
Understood
Recent
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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 more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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Technology
China
Currency
Infusion
Military
People
Republic
Soviet
Tourists
Western
Aid
Time Technology People
Empire
Loans
Reached
Requires
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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 nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Dependent
Energy
Europe
Imports
Materials
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Raw Materials
Routes
Shipping
Weapons
Conquered
Raw
Soviets
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Liberty
Vices
Virtue
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