The portrait shows Chaplin dressed in the clothes of the barber but the words are spoken when he is dressed in the clothes of the other character he played in The Great Dictator (1940), Adenoid Hynkel, the Phooey Of Tomainia:
“We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives 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.”
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Painted by Glen Molloy (ig) in Seymour Street, Belfast
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