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 campcutdictatorship Change image and share on social
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. Barbara Amiel aidchinacurrency share on social
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 classiccountryendure Change image and share on social
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. Barbara Amiel confrontdeplorableexposure Change image and share on social
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. Barbara Amiel acquittalbolshevikbring share on social
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. Barbara Amiel barbariancanadainside Change image and share on social
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. Barbara Amiel ashamedfacefatigue Change image and share on social
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World. Barbara Amiel emptyfreerhetoric Change image and share on social
In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. Barbara Amiel alacommoncrime Change image and share on social
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. Barbara Amiel centuryfeudalismsense Change image and share on social
