1 00:00:51,572 --> 00:00:52,361 I'm sorry 2 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,960 but I don't want to be an emperor. 3 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:56,680 That's not my business. 4 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,426 I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. 5 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,835 I should like to help everyone, if possible. 6 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:04,736 Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 7 00:01:05,434 --> 00:01:08,685 We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. 8 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,910 We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's miseries. 9 00:01:12,284 --> 00:01:14,541 We don't want to hate or despise one another. 10 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:16,350 In this world, there is room for everyone. 11 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,923 The good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. 12 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,200 The way of life can be free and beautiful 13 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,753 but we have lost the way. 14 00:01:25,287 --> 00:01:27,621 Greed has poisoned men's souls 15 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 has barricaded the world with hate 16 00:01:30,256 --> 00:01:32,996 has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. 17 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. 18 00:01:36,827 --> 00:01:39,451 Machinery, that gives abundance, has left us in want. 19 00:01:39,730 --> 00:01:43,770 Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. 20 00:01:43,863 --> 00:01:46,487 We think too much and feel too little. 21 00:01:46,812 --> 00:01:49,200 More than machinery, we need humanity. 22 00:01:49,529 --> 00:01:53,012 More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. 23 00:01:53,151 --> 00:01:57,121 Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. 24 00:01:57,354 --> 00:02:00,163 The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. 25 00:02:00,250 --> 00:02:03,300 The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in Man 26 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,595 cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. 27 00:02:06,897 --> 00:02:09,823 Even now, my voice is reaching millions throughout the world. 28 00:02:10,010 --> 00:02:13,050 Millions of despairing men, women and children. 29 00:02:13,445 --> 00:02:16,115 Victims of a system that makes men torture 30 00:02:16,162 --> 00:02:17,996 and imprison innocent people. 31 00:02:18,700 --> 00:02:21,950 To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. 32 00:02:22,015 --> 00:02:25,200 The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed 33 00:02:25,357 --> 00:02:28,900 the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. 34 00:02:29,049 --> 00:02:32,300 The hate of men will pass, and dictators die 35 00:02:32,555 --> 00:02:36,130 and the power they took from the people will return to the people. 36 00:02:36,270 --> 00:02:39,793 And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. 37 00:02:41,250 --> 00:02:43,900 Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes! 38 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:46,150 Men who despise you! Enslave you! 39 00:02:46,371 --> 00:02:49,970 Who regiment your lives, tell you what to do and what to think and what to feel! 40 00:02:50,103 --> 00:02:54,330 Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle and use you as cannon fodder! 41 00:02:54,521 --> 00:02:57,191 Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men! 42 00:02:57,331 --> 00:03:00,800 Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! 43 00:03:00,970 --> 00:03:04,750 You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! 44 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:06,990 You have the love of humanity in your hearts. 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,425 You don't hate. Only the unloved hate. The unloved and the unnatural. 46 00:03:11,472 --> 00:03:15,000 Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty! 47 00:03:15,117 --> 00:03:17,000 In the 17th chapter of St Luke it is written: 48 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,700 "The Kingdom of God is within Man." 49 00:03:18,799 --> 00:03:20,800 Not in one man nor a group of men! 50 00:03:20,899 --> 00:03:22,423 But in all men! In you! 51 00:03:22,664 --> 00:03:24,568 You, the people, have the power! 52 00:03:24,754 --> 00:03:26,077 The power to create machines. 53 00:03:26,263 --> 00:03:27,500 The power to create happiness. 54 00:03:27,795 --> 00:03:31,245 You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful. 55 00:03:31,534 --> 00:03:33,600 To make this life a wonderful adventure! 56 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:37,000 Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power! 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,521 Let us all UNITE! Let us fight for a new world. 58 00:03:40,845 --> 00:03:43,800 A decent world, that will give men a chance to work 59 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:46,929 that will give youth a future, and old age a security. 60 00:03:47,090 --> 00:03:50,100 By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. 61 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,895 But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! 62 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,679 Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! 63 00:03:57,912 --> 00:04:00,907 Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! 64 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:03,300 Let us fight to free the world. 65 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:05,460 To do away with national barriers 66 00:04:05,644 --> 00:04:08,900 to do away with greed; with hate and intolerance. 67 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:11,160 Let us fight for a world of reason. 68 00:04:11,519 --> 00:04:15,900 A world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. 69 00:04:16,190 --> 00:04:18,850 Soldiers, in the name of democracy 70 00:04:18,995 --> 00:04:20,750 let us all UNITE! 71 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Film by Charlie Chaplin 72 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,500 (1940) The Great Dictator 73 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Music by Peter Joseph 74 00:04:36,016 --> 00:04:38,445 (2008) Zeitgeist Addendum