Thursday, January 3, 2013

The best of Charlie Chaplin

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, MUSLIM, JEW, GENTILE, BLACK MEN, WHITE. WE ALL WANT TO HELP ONE ANOTHER, HUMAN BEINGS ARE LIKE THAT. WE ALL WANT TO LIVE BY EACH OTHER'S HAPPINESS, NOT BY EACH OTHER'S MISERY. WE DON'T WANT TO HATE AND DESPISE ONE ANOTHER. IN THIS WORLD THERE IS ROOM FOR EVERYONE AND THE EARTH IS RICH AND CAN PROVIDE WITH EVERYONE.

THE WAY OF LIFE CAN BE FREE OR BEAUTIFUL. BUT WE HAVE LOST THE WAY.

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 US ABUNDANCE HAS LEFT US IN WANT. OUR KNOWLEDGE HAS MADE US CYNICAL, OUR CLEVERNESS HARD AND UNKIND. WE THINK TOO MUCH AND FEEL TO 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 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 [NOW] LIBERTY WILL NEVER PERISH.

SOLDIERS: DON'T GIVE YOURSELVES TO BRUTES, MEN WHO DESPISE YOU AND 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 AS CATTLE, 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. ONLY THE UNLOVE AND UNNATURAL. SOLDIERS ; DONT FIGHT FOR SLAVERY, FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.

YOU THE POEPLE HAVE THE POWER, THE POWER TO CREATE MACHINES, THE POWER TO CREATE HAPPINESS. YOU THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE LIFE FREE AND BEAUTIFUL, TO MAKE THIS LIFE A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE. THEN IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY LET'S USE USE THE 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 YOU THE FUTURE AND OLD AGE AND SECURITY. BY THE PROMISE OF THESE THINGS, BRUTES HAVE RISEN TO POWER, BUT THEY LIE. THEY DO NOT FULFIL THEIR PROMISE, THEY NEVER WILL.

LOOK UP! LOOK UP! THE CLOUDS ARE LIFTING, THE SUN IS BREAKING THROUGH. WE ARE COMING OUT OF THE DARKNESS TO LIGHT. WE ARE COMING INTO A NEW WORLD. A KIND NEW WORLD WHERE MEN WILL RISE ABOVE THEIR HATE AND BRUTALITY.

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