“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.”

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

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.

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.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

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.

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.

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.

Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.

The Voice of Reason is in us all…and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.