"Never argue with idiots. They'll knock you down to their level then beat you with experience." "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Any government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have." "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees." "Those who will not offend cannot be honest." "Those who do are the envy of those who only watch." "The 9 most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."" "Never look over your shoulder because someone might be gaining on you." "The thing about socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money." "Don't wish it were easier. With you were better." "Either you run the day or the day runs you." "Excuses are the nails that are used to build a house of failure." "Happiness is not by chance, it's by choice." "If you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you've always got." "Motivation alone is not enough. If you motivate and idiot all you're have is a motivated idiot." "Those who will not read are no better than those who cannot read."
Famously considered one of the greatest speeches ever written. Try not to realize how shockingly relevant it all is, even today, until you see the date at the end: "Im sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule anyone 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 others happiness, not by each others misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. And this World has 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 us 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 airplane and radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out 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 these brutes. Men who despise you, 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 17th Chapter of Saint Luke it is written; the kingdom of God is within Man. Not one Man nor a group of Men, but in all Mankind. 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 fulfil 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 all unite!" Charles Chaplin "The Great Dictator" 1940
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
