In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit. — 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
