Barbara Amiel

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Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Lady Black of Crossharbour (born in Watford, Hertfordshire, UK on December 4, 1940), is a British-Canadian journalist and writer.

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• All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.
  • Barbara Amiel (from [1])
  • Simple: Everyone is partly responsible for the destruction of freedom (the ability to be free). People do not see that freedom has a very high value.
• After the hurt had passed and I had cried a bit, after I got over the fright of sleeping in cellars underneath the furnace pipes, I came to cherish my freedom..."From:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/barbara-amiel-farewell-my-lovely-400616.html
  • Simple: After the hurt was finished and was in the past, and after I had cried for a short time, and after I stopped being afraid of sleeping in cellars (the lowest part of the house, lower than the ground) under the pipes that bring air from the furnace, I started to love my freedom.

• When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
  • Barbara Amiel (from [2])
  • Simple: When good qualities are free, then bad qualities are also partly free.