"Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs……" — Whittaker Chambers
"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, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation."
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35 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers
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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so…
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced…
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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…
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No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could…
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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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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives…
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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a…
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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…
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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist,…
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Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
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