Wicked World Quotes - Page 2

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Money, Luxury, Imagination

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is "elephant".

  Charlie Chaplin

  Elephants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Unnatural, Unloved

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Believe, Careers, Want

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• 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

  Men, Individuality, Monsters

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• A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Religion, Wicked

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• Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

  Jacques Barzun

  School, Hands, Two

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Trouble, Despise, Rainforest

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• ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Cutting, Order

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• Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

  e. e. cummings

  Father, Mean, Eye

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• I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Jesus, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Money, Business

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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