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Brief about Whittaker Chambers: By info that we know Whittaker Chambers was born at 1970-01-01. And also Whittaker Chambers is American Writer.

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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

Tags: Challenge, Faith, Life

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

Tags: Communist, God, Vision

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

Tags: Die, Faith, Human

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.

Tags: Become, Free, Struggle

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

Tags: Against, Fact, Witness

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

Tags: Life, Memory, Nation

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

Tags: Cross, Crucified, Himself

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

Tags: God, Grace, Why

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.

Tags: Die, Leaving, Winning

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

Tags: Evil, Focus, Time

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

Tags: Began, Impossible, Return

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

Tags: Freedom, Political, Reading

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

Tags: Power, Revolution, War

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.

Tags: Faith, Good, Life

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.

Tags: Faith, Sick, Society

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.

Tags: Crisis, Fact, Whole

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.

Tags: Children, Father, Friendly

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.

Tags: Freedom, Men, Time

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.

Tags: Die, Feeling, Night

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.

Tags: Death, Life, Pain
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