At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith is the central problem of this age. The Western world does not know it, but it already possesses… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a…” quote by Whittaker Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/391/whittaker-chambers-13841_communism_it-communism-is-not-new-it-is-in-fact-ma_160564.jpg)
