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

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


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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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



Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.





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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.



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I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.



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