Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

Losing

Sides

Socialism

A nation’s life is about as long as its reverential memory

Life Is

Long

Memories

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.

Civilization

Issues

Men

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.

Men

Pain

Struggle

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

Human Society

Humans

Live By

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.

Leaving

Sides

Winning

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Doe

Guilt

Innocence

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.

Hands

Long

Play

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

Life Is

Men

Prepared

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.

Design

Together

Views

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Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers

[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

A nation’s life is about as long as its reverential memory

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.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

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.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

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.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

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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