Charlie Chaplin Quotes

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

“The Great Dictator is”, is an elegant speech composed by the magnificent Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin wants the audience to take action and think for themselves; help one another and save humanity from war using three key rhetorical tools: ethos, organization, and pathos. Charlie is clearly calling on the soldiers to help in bringing about such progress by taking action against the direct threat to the happiness of many.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

When you laugh, you change and when you change, the whole world changes around you and it turns magical. We all are just like magicians, if we look at someone with a smile, we take away their agonies and work our magic on them by giving them a reason to smile back. Always find a reason to laugh, it may not add years to your life but will surely add life to your years.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Alcohol affects the top of the brain known as the cerebral cortex, which is what makes a person more likely to act and speak in ways he or she may not when sober. This can lead to something innocent, like being funnier or quieter, or it can lead to aggressive behavior and a loss of sexual discretion.

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

Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it can help those suffering from pain. Laughter strengthens your immune system, boosts mood, diminishes pain, and protects you from the damaging effects of stress. Nothing works faster or more dependably to bring your mind and body back into balance than a good laugh.

We think too much and feel too little.

Thinking about ourselves – our feelings, our past, our desires, and our hopes – is a hugely tricky task that most of us spend a good deal of effort trying very hard to avoid. We keep away from ourselves because so much of what we could discover threatens to be painful. We think too much and feel too little.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Courage is the ability to overcome your fears and act in spite of them. You should not let the fear of failure hold you back. Most failures will end up in embarrassment, however, it takes real courage to get up again and keep trying at the cost of looking like a fool. If you ever want to succeed, you must have the courage the put up with all the humiliation on your way.

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

Nothing is unchanging in this life. Not pain. Not peace or joy. Everything flies away. Life is a beautiful struggle. If you have grief now, take solace in remembering it cannot last forever. So enjoy what you have while you still have it. Stay motivated by what we earn now and Love the people you have in your life while you still have the time.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

People tend to live in a world that they think is full of sunshine and rainbows. But to be quite frank, this world is ruthless. People don’t have time to listen to your bullshit and they do not care about what problems are going on with you. All they care about is what kind of value you can add to this world and to their lives.