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. Furthermore, you don’t hate: only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, 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! 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. . .

— 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.

— Charlie Chaplin

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

— Charlie Chaplin

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

— Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

— Charlie Chaplin

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

— Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

— Charlie Chaplin

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.

— Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

— Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

— Charlie Chaplin