Whittaker Chambers Quotes on Communism & Marxism (9 Quotes)



    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.

    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. ...Though 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.

    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.

    Communism in our time can no more be considered apart from the crisis clan a fever can be acted upon apart from an infected body.


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

    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.

    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.

    The chief fruit of the Second World War was our arrival at the next to the last step of the crisis with the rise of Communism as a world power.


    More Whittaker Chambers Quotations (Based on Topics)


    Man - Communism & Marxism - Society & Civilization - Life - Facts - Pleasure - World - Time - Power - Children - Belief & Faith - Liberty & Freedom - War & Peace - Memory - Soul - Politics - Happiness - Intelligence - Pain - View All Whittaker Chambers Quotations

    Related Authors


    Pablo Neruda - Niccolo Machiavelli - Thomas Paine - T. H. White - Robert Louis Stevenson - Paul Davies - Margaret J. Wheatley - Ivo Andric - Charles Caleb Colton - Anne Frank


Authors (by First Name)

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Other Inspiring Sections