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On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.
Whittaker Chambers
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Whittaker Chambers
Age: 60 †
Born: 1901
Born: April 1
Died: 1961
Died: July 9
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... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form.
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The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
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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.
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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.
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The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
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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.
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Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.
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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.
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The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.
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True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.
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I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
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Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.
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I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
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Man without mysticism is a monster.
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The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
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A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
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[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.
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