"Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in……" — Whittaker Chambers
"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 who could not see that what they firmly believed was liberalism added up to socialism could scarcely be expected to see what added up to Communism. Any charge of Communism enraged them precisely because they could not grasp the differences between themselves and those against whom it was made."
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Whittaker Chambers
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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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Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to…
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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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Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
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...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.
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Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
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I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.
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