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.
BARBARA AMIELTotalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
More Barbara Amiel Quotes
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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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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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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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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.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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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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