Hinkel The Great Dictator - Final Speech of the Barber

Charlie Chaplin as Hinkel (resp. the barber). End of the film: The barber, having been mistaken for the dictator, is delivering an address in front of a great audience and over the radio to the nation. The speech is full of humanity, pathos of freedom, and belief in peace. (The address is interpreted as an out-of-character personal plea from Chaplin.)

Copyright: United Artists

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*** His Speech ***
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 out 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, 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 17th 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 all unite!

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[nuorisokaarti]

"I don't always talk.

But when i talk, i make the most awesome speach in the world"

[tenbears0]

one of the best speeches in history. i will forever live by this speech.

[26FireWolf]

I can't believe that in a video that speaks of people comming together. There are people arguing over political parties. Who gives a damn about an ass and an elephant were suppose to be coming together as a species. George washington didn't even want us to have political parties and that's the truth check his memoirs its one of his last 3 warnings

[steve2toes]

occupy

[MoralisticAthiest]

@HoWilliam50 Paletine oh Paletine Wherefor art thou Paletine? Lost in a land of misspelling and woe, pulled from this poor ignoramus' toe! in other words......LOL

[Zamboro]

@Spartanhero25

Did you listen to the speech? It specifically promotes democracy and liberalism.

[oontgrad]

@HoWilliam50 no, he's right. you are a moron. I've never seen 'greed' spelled wrong but it seems fitting coming from a raving anti-Semite.

[HoWilliam50]

And you are a new onwner of the stolen land of paletine? you are clawn and land eater. Also take your stupid comment to your AIPAC bosses to get the job in finance industry ... to feed your greed more hahaha

[ADR10723]

@HoWilliam50 you sir are a boorish clown.

[HoWilliam50]

tell  that to gready jews