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«A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory»
«Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible»
«The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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«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»
«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.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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«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.»
«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.»
«The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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automatically, consequent, fibers, replaced, rub, softening, The Pursuit of Happiness, widely
«I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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concentrated
«The Communist vision is the vision of man without God»
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