Barbara Amiel

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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These are some quotes by British author Barbara Amiel Journalist, who was born on December 4, 1940.

Quotes by Barbara Amiel

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.

Barbara Amiel

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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.

Barbara Amiel

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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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