Whittaker Chambers
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 ChambersIn 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.
Whittaker ChambersA nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.
Whittaker ChambersWhen 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 ChambersIt is about what the world calls the Hiss-Chambers Case, or even more simply, the Hiss Case. It is about a spy case.
Whittaker ChambersI 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 ChambersHuman societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
Whittaker ChambersI do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
Whittaker ChambersThe Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
Whittaker ChambersTragedy 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 ChambersIt 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
