Charlie Chaplin — "I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood."

"Hanns Eisler is a personal friend and I am proud of the fact... I don't know whether he is a communist or not. I know he is a fine artist and a great musician and a very sympathetic friend. No it woul…"

"Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to 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 lik…"

"Too much kindness and respect are given to the unseen and not enough to humanity. It seems that in our nature we loathe each other and bestow our respect and love on the abstract."

"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

"I am for people. I can’t help it."