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 AMIELI 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 AMIELIn a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIELIf 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 AMIELIt is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
BARBARA AMIELI 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.
BARBARA AMIELPower 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.
BARBARA AMIELTotalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
BARBARA AMIELOf 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.
BARBARA AMIELThe same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
BARBARA AMIELWhen 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.
BARBARA AMIELThe 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.
BARBARA AMIELThere 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 AMIELHere in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
BARBARA AMIELIndeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
BARBARA AMIELAll share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
BARBARA AMIELThere 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.
BARBARA AMIEL