Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.
Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.
Let us fight to free the world!
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.