Whittaker Chambers Quotes

Whittaker Chambers Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Whittaker Chambers
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
American
Birth day:
April 1
Birth year:
1901

  • 1
    A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory. Whittaker Chambers
  • 2
    A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. Whittaker Chambers
  • 3
    At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. Whittaker Chambers
  • 4
    At issue was the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there still remained the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts. Whittaker Chambers
  • 5
    Communism in our time can no more be considered apart from the crisis clan a fever can be acted upon apart from an infected body. Whittaker Chambers
  • 6
    Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself. Whittaker Chambers
  • 7
    I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. Whittaker Chambers
  • 8
    I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism. Whittaker Chambers
  • 9
    I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time. Whittaker Chambers
  • 10
    In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return. Whittaker Chambers
  • 11
    It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. Whittaker Chambers
  • 12
    My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. Whittaker Chambers
  • 13
    On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. Whittaker Chambers
  • 14
    That is why this terrible book is also a book of hope For it is about the struggle of the human soul - of more than one human soul. Whittaker Chambers
  • 15
    The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. Whittaker Chambers
  • 16
    The chief fruit of the Second World War was our arrival at the next to the last step of the crisis with the rise of Communism as a world power. Whittaker Chambers
  • 17
    The Communist vision is the vision of man without God. Whittaker Chambers
  • 18
    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. Whittaker Chambers
  • 19
    When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser. Whittaker Chambers

 

 

 

 

 

 

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