Quotes by Barbara Amiel

Barbara Amiel

British journalist, writer, and socialite

Lived from: 1940 -

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 4 december 1940

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  • All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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  • Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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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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  • Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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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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  • In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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  • It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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  • It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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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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  • Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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  • Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
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  • Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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.
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  • The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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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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  • 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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  • They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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What are the most famous quotes from Barbara Amiel?

The two most famous quotes from Barbara Amiel are:

  • "All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty."
  • "Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

When did Barbara Amiel live?

Barbara Amiel is still alive and was born in 1940.