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Whittaker Chambers 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.

Whittaker Chambers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1901 - July 9, 1961

Topics

Communism World Solution Crisis Call

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

John O'Keefe

Progress Medicine Biology Want Going

Through years and years of playing to various audiences, what I've learned is - and I think quite a few actors will agree with me - we're not always the best judge of that audience's reactions or not. And we discover, to our amazement, at the end of the show, they bring the house down with applause, and we thought, 'No way tonight,' you know.

Angela Lansbury

Best Me Think Thought End Judge

In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.

Jeff Sessions

Storm Enough Go Before Around After

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

Mimi Kennedy

Think Laugh You Real Something Get

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Lord Byron

Architecture Man Dress Poetry Three

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

Jean Cocteau

Comfort Height Must State He His

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

Jasmine Guinness

Time People Better Holiday Always

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

Jonathan Kozol

Government People Society Color Help

Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.

Debbie Stabenow

You Want Matter Republican Democrat

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders would have long ago revolted, fired their management, and their stock would be trading at values near zero.

Peter Bergen

Intelligence Management Key Values

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Noam Chomsky

Power Yourself People Care You Try

I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.

Khaled Hosseini

Parents House Up Books Around Had