Barbara Amiel Quotes

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several read more

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.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic read more

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.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, read more

Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people read more

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.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I read more

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.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the read more

But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speaking circuit. It has caught up with me.