"Man as an individual is a genius. But……" — Charlie Chaplin
"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
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Charlie Chaplin
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161 Quotes by Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin has 161 quotes on this site.
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We think too much and feel too little.
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A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness,…
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far…
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Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
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More Brutish Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
— Alexander Berkman
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
— Thomas Hobbes
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you…
— Alexander Berkman
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Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed…
— Matt Groening
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish.…
— Bill Gates
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual…
— Isaac Watts
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
— Stella Gibbons
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
— John T. Flynn
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Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
— Jacob M. Appel
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a…
— Federica Montseny
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