Whittaker Chambers Quotes

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. - Whittaker Chambers

In 1937, I began, like Lazarus, the impossible return. - Whittaker Chambers

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

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. - Whittaker Chambers

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

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

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

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself. - Whittaker Chambers

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

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