Charlie Chaplin Quotes

More than machinery, we need humanity.

There is greatness in everyone.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins.

I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!

I am for people. I can't help it.

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

Let us fight to free the world!

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.]

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!