Quotes by Whittaker Chambers - Page 1

Man without mysticism is a monster.
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Men
Monsters
Mysticism
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Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
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Men
Crosses
Every Man
Cross
Himself
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Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
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Doe
Guilt
Innocence
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Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
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Bible
Political Freedom
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The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
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Men
Communist
Vision
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In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.
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Impossible
Lazarus
Return
Began
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
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Life Is
Long
Memories
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
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Memory
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I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
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Communism
Evil
Focus
Our Time
Concentrated
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[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.
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Losing
Sides
Socialism
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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
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Century
Quiet
Reflection
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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
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Human Beings
Human Society
Humans
Live By
Beings
Societies
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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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Men
Life Is
Prepared
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The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
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Crisis
Degrees
World
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The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.
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Communism
Satellites
West
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I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
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Men
Grace
Unworthy
Way
God Man Way
Explain
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Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.
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Political
Reading
Resurrection
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True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.
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Wisdom
Sadness
Suffering
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The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
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War
Communism
First World War
Firsts
Fruit
Revolution
Rise
War Power World
Chief
First World
World War
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In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
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Class
Republican
United States
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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
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Men
Facts
Witness
Incidental
Primarily
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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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Men
Mind Freedom
Opposites
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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.
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Communism
Leaving
Losing
Sides
Winning
Die
Live
Am
Side
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Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.
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Mind
Revolutionary
Trotsky
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No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.
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Design
Together
Views
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On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
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Feelings
Night
Pleasure
Within
Die
Against
Always Me Night
Anyone
Ever
Feeling
Inform
Necessary
Road
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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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Cost
Crime
Defeat
Human Soul
Infamy
Pain
Struggle
Suffering
Tragedy
Violence
Life Death Pain
Life Death Struggle
Occurs
Seeks
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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.
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Claims
Communism
Crisis
Facts
Western
Western World
World
Irritant
Popular
Solution
Symptom
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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.
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Men
Communism
Conscious
Our Time
Resolute
Symbolic
Two
Scale
Big Enough
Faiths
Grips
Irreconcilable
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.
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Freedom
Liberty
Pursuit Of Happiness
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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.
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Equal
Extinction
Mercy
Sick
Beyond
Issue
Prevail
Replacement
Swift
Whose
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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.
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Faith
Men
Challenges
Risk
Witness
Life Faith Man
Consequences
Challenge
Word
Risks
Step
Testify
Using
Whose
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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.
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Men
Children
Every Man
Pain
Wiser
Cross
Himself
Life Man Children
Longer
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It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.
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Hands
Long
Play
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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.
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Children
Father
Friendly
Lurking
Memories
Passing
Shadow
Unfriendly
Winter
Woods
Brush
Cloud
Memory
Pair
Pass
Rests
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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
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Civilization
Communist
Decades
Destroyed
Generations
Mankind
Struggle
World Free Will
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
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Men
Abandon
Civilization
Extremity
Including
Issues
Sick
Sick Society
Western
Western Civilization
Life Faith Good
Case
Defend
Issue
Voluntarily
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.
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Men
Doe
Guilt
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... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.
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Believe
Religious
Taken
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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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Men
Pain
Struggle
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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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Men
Common
Differences
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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.
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Political
Reading
Soul
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