Barbara Amiel
Barbara Amiel
Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Baroness Black of Crossharbouris a British journalist, writer, and socialite. She is the wife of former media baron Conrad Black...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 December 1940
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We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point.
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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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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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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
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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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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.
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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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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All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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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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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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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.