14 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers
- I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
- 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.
- 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.
- Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
- In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.
- Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
- 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.
- Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
- 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.
- A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
- 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.
- The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
- The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
- 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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