Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time -… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
“It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
“be realized when, in 1937, I introduced him in New York City, to Colonel Boris Bykov. At St. Matthews Court, Collins lived alone. He… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
“The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share
