Whittaker Chambers Quotes

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.

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

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

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

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.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

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

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

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

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

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

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.

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

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

Man without mysticism is a monster.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

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

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

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