Whittaker Chambers Short Quotes

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A man is not primarily a witness against something.

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Conservatism is alien to the very nature of capitalism.

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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

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I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

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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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The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

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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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I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

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In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas.

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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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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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All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it.

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I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure because it is necessary.

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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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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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Now, the Communists recognized at once (or, more probably, after they had stirred things up a bit) that Senator McCarthy is a political godsend.

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The Columbia faculty was not, of course, composed wholly of young skeptics and esthetes. By any count of academic noses, they were a small minority.

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The Wizard of Oz (M. G. M.) should settle an old Hollywood controversy: whether fantasy can be presented on the screen as successfully with human actors as with cartoons.

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Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance.

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I wanted my wife to realize clearly one long-term penalty, for herself and for the children, of the step I was taking. I said: "You know, we are leaving the winning world for the losing world."

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Lenin was a Great Russian peasant et rien de plus, mais r-r-rien de plus. Oh yes, he was a dialectician, the only true one among them. But most of all he was a Russian and that is to be a peasant.

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Two faiths were on trial. Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies... At heart, the Great Case was this critical conflict of faiths; that is why it was a great case.

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The Hiss Case has turned my wife and me into old people - not a disagreeable condition. But we who used to plan in terms of decades, now find a year, two years, the utmost span of time we can take in.

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