On that road of the informer, it is alwa...

Feeling Road

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

Quote of the Day

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Whittaker Chambers

Communism Popular Fact World

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

Tragedy Crime Violence Struggle Suffering

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

Power First World

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

- Whittaker Chambers

Civilization Struggle Will World

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

Eyes Father Will

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

- Whittaker Chambers

Pain Man Life Will

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

- Whittaker Chambers

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