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Men Quotes by Whittaker Chambers
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
- I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
- 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…
- ... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part…
- When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always…
- The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
- Man without mysticism is a monster.
- On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism…
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