When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
