"Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and……" — Whittaker Chambers
"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."
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35 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers has 35 quotes on this site.
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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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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist,…
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More Awakes Quotes
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.
— Frederick Schiller Faust
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Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
— Gary Snyder
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Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen.…
— John Main
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Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in…
— Henry George
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Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then…
— Unknown Author
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Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to…
— Whittaker Chambers
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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
— Jane Austen
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become…
— Carl Jung
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Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then…
— C. J. Dennis
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
— Walt Whitman
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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