The Great Dictator - speech

http://www.hanlonsrazor.org

This is the climax to the 1940 Charlie Chaplin film "The Great Dictator". While not completely applicable to anything today, I still find it very moving.

Interestingly enough, I notice that whoever is president, commenters tell me this speech does apply today! Use it against Bush, use it against Obama. Clearly this IS a universal message.

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[Plwmbad]

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[MCAA6556]

search Time - Hanz Zimmer and start that song at 0:30 and this one at 0:00 most epic speech ever!

[ZeeTymian]

First of all, never in my comments I said anything that would even resemble sympathy towards nacism. Actually, my whole family from mother's side, except for grandad and his father, was jewish and had died in Terezín.

While aggression was part of nacism, it isn't part of Germany, and it was not like if all germans were nazis. And yes, if you learned basic history, you would know that the attack on Poland was justified by inscenated attack of Poland on German borders.

[Neverlate2change]

Actions over thoughts

[Nc Witch]

you mean you?

[Aaron Hub]

I did what you said....HOLY F***

[MrTheBigDude11]

boring as hell

[Andrew Balis]

Shut the fuck up you Nazi shill, you know well that hatred of Jews is the basis of Nazi ideology and that discrimination against Muslims and Russians pales in comparison to the savage depths of Nazi Anti-semitism. Aggression and genocide against innocent nations were part and parcel thereof. The Nazis made no illusions of "defending the fatherland" (at least when they were winning.) The war in their eyes was one of racial struggle to make Lebensraum for Germans and exterminate the "sub-humans."

[Leopold Slany]

And the creation of real Unicorns.

[grc3rb]

Heil chaplin!

[qwer58j]

We think too much and feel too little.

Its very possible Chaplin, just meant we need to have more love for our fellow man. If that is the case I then simply disagree with his choice of words.

We think too much and feel too little. That line reminds me a little too much of Miracles by The Insane Clown Posse.

[Orson Crake]

You could argue (just about) that the speech is more about finding a balance between thinking and feeling, that both are necessary and that thinking without feeling can lead to decisions that overlook the human beings it impacts. But I do agree with you, it's a little problematic being told not to think too much.