The Great Dictator Speech - Charlie Chaplin

Speech text:
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule 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 other's happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's 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 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 aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man - cries 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 brutes - men who despise you and 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 seventeenth chapter of St Luke, it is written the kingdom of God is within man not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! 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 unite!"

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[Geheim0072]

can i use your video for my video

[krusher1977]

@Geheim0072 Sure. I got it from a film archive site.

[poeboy2]

I have never heard a better speech than this one.

[ryanmshepard92]

@krusher1977 Someone from the soundtrack "Time" of the movie Inception linked us all to your video. He told us to play the soundtrack and this video at the same time. I must admit, it is indeed epic.

[PeaceWithTheseEyes]

Green Energy for World Peace, is the theme for the novel, "With These Eyes", written by Horst Steiner.

[ADBurrows]

You tell 'em, Charlie!

[TheBuzzzbizzz]

one of the most beautiful speeches ever written and presented for our viewing pleasure

#WordsToLiveBy

[pwnsaucepwny]

Who wrote this speech? As much as I'd love for it to be Chaplin himself, I'm not too sure he did.

[Emman27running]

Goes to show you that facial hair styles are not evil. :3

[Vincenteloco]

well said 

[Tastaturist]

10,000 viewer!  :D

[mrcannibalhead]

no fucking way! it's like an alternate universe hitler! What the fuck? Was this just before, just after, or right in the middle of WWII?

[Denstoremonkey]

What was the time to match these two (with the Inception soundtrack)?

It was so LEGENDARY!

[imTheBossYay]

i got chills from this