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.
More Quotes from Whittaker Chambers:
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.Whittaker Chambers
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
Whittaker Chambers
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.
Whittaker Chambers
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.
Whittaker Chambers
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Communism & Marxism Quotes, Success QuotesI would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
Kristin Hersh
We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
Tracy Chapman
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
George Chapman