Quotes of Whittaker Chambers - somelinesforyou

“ It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God. It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God. ”

- 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. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

“ It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God. It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

“ 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. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

“ Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

“ Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks… ”

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

“ Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks… ”

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

“ All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

“ Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

“ Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks… ”

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

“ 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. ”

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers
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