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