Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.
Nothing is more important than the moving image; except for my cup of coffee in the morning.
Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.
Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant
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.
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
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.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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.
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
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.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
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.
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.
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
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.]
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.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
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.
I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.
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.
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.
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.
In this world there is 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.
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'.
I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
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.