Whittaker Chambers Quotes

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• A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the…
• The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure…
• A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
• Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it,…
• No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by…
• Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
• Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence,…
• Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of…
• A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
• A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
• 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…
• For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is…
• Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
• It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims…
• I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
• The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
• Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men…
• In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
• Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
• Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

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