In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
BARBARA AMIELIn a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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 AMIELIndeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
BARBARA AMIELIt is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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 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 AMIELThe 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.
BARBARA AMIELThe world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
BARBARA AMIELTotalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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 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 AMIELWhen 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.
BARBARA AMIELThe same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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 AMIELHere in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
BARBARA AMIELOnly a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
BARBARA AMIEL