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.
More Quotes from Whittaker Chambers:
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.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 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
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Whittaker Chambers
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.
Whittaker Chambers
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.
Whittaker Chambers
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Belief & Faith Quotes, Man Quotes, Society & Civilization QuotesBased on Keywords: pleads, replacement, swift
I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
Stephen Cole Kleene
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
Alma Guillermoprieto
I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.
Marilu Henner