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Whittaker Chambers has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the…
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman…
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No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been…
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Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
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Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself…
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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after…
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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for…
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A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity…
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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the…
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GG Allin is an entertainer with a message to a sick society. He makes us look at it for what we really…
— John Wayne Gacy
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity…
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Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?
— Ozzy Osbourne
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Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you…
— Marjane Satrapi
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost…
— Richard J. Foster
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The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
— Markus Zusak
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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
— Andrea Gibson
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does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too…
— Neal Shusterman
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