Quotes of Chaplin
“Life is a tragedy when seen in
close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
“Failure is unimportant. It takes
courage to make a fool of yourself.”
“Laughter is the tonic, the
relief, the surcease for pain.”
“A day without laughter is a day
wasted.”
Speech from the film “Great Dictator”
"I'm sorry, but I don't want
to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer
anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man -
white.
We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by
each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this
world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for
everyone.
The way of life can be free and
beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls - has
barricaded the world with hate - has goose-stepped us into misery and
bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery
that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical;
our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More
than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and
gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have
brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for
the goodness in man - cries for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us
all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of
despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men
torture and imprison innocent people. 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. The hate of men will
pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to
the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves
to brutes - men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives -
tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you
- treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to
these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You
are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of
humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate - the unloved
and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for
slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St Luke, it is
written 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.
Then in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let
us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work -
that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things,
brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They
never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us
fight to fulfill that promise! 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 men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite!
Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever
you are, look up Hannah. The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through!
We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new
world - a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and
their brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at
last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of
hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me, and to
all of us. Look up, Hannah... look up!"
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