Quote

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!

Charlie Chaplin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Composer
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Mime Artist
London
England
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
Enslave
Dictators
Dictator
Free
People

More quotes by Charlie Chaplin

Image
In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs
Charlie Chaplin
Image
More than machinery, we need humanity.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin
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 far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
Imagination means nothing without doing.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Charlie Chaplin
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
Image
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
Life salutes u when u make others happy
Charlie Chaplin
Image
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.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] 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.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
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.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror
Charlie Chaplin
Image
I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans
Charlie Chaplin
Image
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
Charlie Chaplin
Image
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
Charlie Chaplin