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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.

- Whittaker Chambers

Other quotes by Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

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.

- Whittaker Chambers

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

- Whittaker Chambers

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

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

- Whittaker Chambers

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.

- Whittaker Chambers

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- Whittaker Chambers

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