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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liberty destruction share
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
world common crime
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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.
military technology people
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.
country opportunity journey
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.
wall attention world
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.
america independence trying
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.
sexy self-confidence inspire
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.
europe raw-materials nuclear
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.
country running benefits
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.
today world world-today
The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.
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.
century feudalism totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
liberty vices virtue
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.