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
century feudalism totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
vortex speech recycling
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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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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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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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.
ideas confusion progress
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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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
liberty vices virtue
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
today world world-today
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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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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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.