“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense ... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
