[Extract from Charlie Chaplin Movie "The Great Dictator"]
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 men - 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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