Whittaker Chambers Quotes

Conservatism is alien to the very nature of capitalism.

Whittaker Chambers

Die goldene Medina. The accent was not on the golden (except in the sense of some mysterious Light), but on the Medina - that is, the city of hope, the city of deliverance.

Whittaker Chambers

In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas.

Whittaker Chambers

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

Whittaker Chambers

All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it.

Whittaker Chambers

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. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

Whittaker Chambers