"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."
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Charlie Chaplin quotes (page 7 of 9)
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"I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror"
"The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it."
"Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural."
"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."
"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!"
"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."
"The glamour of it all! New York! America!"
"More than machinery, we need humanity."
"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"
"In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness."
"The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me."
"Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked."
"We might as well die as to go on living like this."
"I am known in parts of the world by people who have never heard of Jesus Christ."
"I hate the sight of blood, but it's in my veins."
"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."
"Why not? After all, it belongs to him."