Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
"Whittaker Chambers", born "Jay Vivian Chambers" and also known as "David Whittaker Chambers", was an American writer and editor. After his early years as a Communist Party USA member and Soviet Union/Soviet spy, he renounced communism, became an outspoken opponent, and testified at Alger Hiss's perjury and espionage trial. He described both events in his book Witness, published in 1952.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Whittaker Chambers on Wikipedia.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.
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
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.
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.
I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
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