the great dictator speech is the greatest thing i've ever heard in my life.?
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Chaplains speech is eerie in todays time. Ppl need to hear this now?
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It’s depressing that as time marches on, Charlie Chaplin’s speech in “The Great Dictator” (I think that’s the film’s name) becomes more and more relatable to our common day lives. Literally every line can be applied to our world today. We have so much food, but yet people are starving to death. We have machines that can literally take us to space and back, and yet people cant even get an X-Ray. We have a work force strong enough to build a home for every family and person out there, yet the number of homeless people only rise with each passing year.
I’ve listened to this speech so many times, and every time, it feels like he’s talking right at me. If you didn’t know any better, you would think this was a speech he made in front of the White House or something.
I did my Senior essay on this speech for my English final. The project was a 20 page essay on a work of fiction that greatly impacted us. I choose this as my project.
I watch this speech at least once a month, and love it each time.?
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I’ve listened to this speech so many times, and every time, it feels like he’s talking right at me. If you didn’t know any better, you would think this was a speech he made in front of the White House or something.
I did my Senior essay on this speech for my English final. The project was a 20 page essay on a work of fiction that greatly impacted us. I choose this as my project.
I watch this speech at least once a month, and love it each time.?
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I really like the Nicholson/Cruise duet, because it's not only a monologue but a real showdown?
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After the Charlie Chaplin speech I logged off, I don't need spoilers?
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Jessop; You want gin or vodka?
Caffee; I want a martini.
Jessop; Do you want gin or vodka?
Caffee; I think I'm entitled to a martini.
Jessop; I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to. Do you want gin or vodka?
Caffee; I WANT VERMOUTH!
Jessop; YOU CAN"T HANDLE VERMOUTH!?
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Caffee; I want a martini.
Jessop; Do you want gin or vodka?
Caffee; I think I'm entitled to a martini.
Jessop; I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to. Do you want gin or vodka?
Caffee; I WANT VERMOUTH!
Jessop; YOU CAN"T HANDLE VERMOUTH!?
when you use a clip of a speech that's been censored, you're obviously Missing the point... :>/?
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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.
And this world has room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has posioned 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 us abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynincal.
Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much, and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
More that 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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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.
And this world has room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has posioned 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 us abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynincal.
Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much, and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
More that 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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I wish Tom Cruise would return to dramas and give the action movies a break. I could watch A Few Good Men every time. Brilliant.?
Love jacks speech ! I cracked up when he said "who's gonna do it u ! U LT Weinberg. Also when he says u want me on that wall u need me on that wall!?
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That thumbnail with Michael Douglass and the mic over his chin looked like Abe Lincoln. ?????????????
"I really like the Nicholson/Cruise duet, because it's not only a monologue but a real showdown?" - got your heartbeat up, blood boiling up
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