Ideology: Charles Chaplin
final monologue The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Army Uniform Badge Placement
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Sorry, but I do not want to be emperor. That's not my job, I do not want to rule or conquer anyone, but to help everyone if possible. Jew and Gentile, black or white. We must help each other, human beings are like that. We want to make others happy, not make them unhappy. We do not want anyone to hate or despise. In this world there's room for all the good earth is rich and can provide for all beings.
The road of life can be free and beautiful, but we lost. Greed has poisoned souls, has barricaded the hatred, has pushed us into misery and bloodshed. We progressed very quickly, but we have imprisoned us. The machinery, which creates abundance has left us in need. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness hard and dry. 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.
Planes and radio have brought us closer. The true nature of these inventions require human goodness requires the universal brotherhood that unites us all of us. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and 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 more than the passing of greed and bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass and dictators die, and power that took away the people have returned to the village, and thus, while Man, liberty not perish.
Soldiers, do not rindáis those men who actually despise you, enslave you, regulate your lives and tell them what you have to do, what to say and feel. I sweep the brain, I baited, they treat you like cattle, as cannon fodder. Do not give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine, with machine minds and hearts. You are not machines, you are not cattle, are men. You carry the love of humanity in your hearts, not hatred. Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers not fight for slavery, but for freedom. In chapter 17 of Luke we read: "The Kingdom of God is within man," not a man or 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, the people you have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make it a wonderful adventure. In the name of democracy, let us use that power to act all together. Fight for a new world, ensuring decent and noble men work, and give youth a future and old age security.
With the promise of these things, the beasts reached power. But they lied, they have not fulfilled their promises and never fulfilled. Dictators are free, only they, but they enslave the people. Fight now to make us actually promised. All fight to free the world. To break down national barriers, to do away with greed, hatred and intolerance. Fight for the world of reason. A world where science, where progress will lead us all to happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, we must pull together.
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