Whittaker Chambers quotes - page 3

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. (Whittaker Chambers)

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

Whittaker Chambers

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. 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. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

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In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas.

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Whittaker Chambers

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: April 1, 1901
Died: July 9, 1961
Quotes count: 55
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