Quote by Whittaker Chambers
Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when fai

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies. – Whittaker Chambers

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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

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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it. – Whittaker Chambers

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At issue was the question whether this mans 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

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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt

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One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isnt the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: thats the worst thing. And death is not, its not all its cracked up to be. Its not, its not the end of the world. – Gene Robinson

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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. – William Shakespeare

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. – Ambrose Bierce

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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…for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. – Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” about a sculpture, translated by

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Gandhi

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I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly. – Brittany Murphy

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