"[It is b]etter to die on the losing……" — Whittaker Chambers
"[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim."
—
Whittaker Chambers
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
35 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers has 35 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so…
-
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced…
-
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…
-
No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could…
-
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…
-
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives…
-
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a…
-
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…
-
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist,…
See all 35 quotes by Whittaker Chambers »
More Die Quotes
This quote is filed under Die Quotes,
one of 9,896 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
— Mary Kay Ash
-
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
— Isaac Asimov
-
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
— Bashar al-Assad
-
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
-
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
-
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
-
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
— Joan Baez
-
When I die I want to go to Vogue.
— David Bailey
-
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
See all 9,896 Die Quotes »