57 Quotes by Whittaker Chambers

At issue was the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there still remained the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts.

That is why this terrible book is also a book of hope For it is about the struggle of the human soul - of more than one human soul.

Man without mysticism is a monster.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.