“There was something uncanny in the resemblance between the Little Tramp and Adolf Hitler, representing opposite poles of humanity, ” writes Chaplin biographer David Robinson, reproducing an unsigned article from The Spectator dated 21st April 1939: All one has to be is a normal decent human being.”Ĭhaplin and Hitler were born within a week of one another. In his autobiography Chaplin quotes himself as having said: “One doesn’t have to be a Jew to be anti Nazi. Chaplin plays both a little Jewish barber, living in the ghetto, and Hynkel, the dictator ruler of Tomainia. The Great Dictator was Chaplin’s first film with dialogue. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!įinal speech from The Great Dictator Copyright © Roy Export S.A.S.
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
#My freedom does not end where your fear begin free#
They never will!ĭictators 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. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. 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. Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. 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. 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. 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! 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. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish… The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. 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. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost… More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. In this world there is room for everyone.
We don’t want to hate and despise one another. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor.
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