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| 04 Sep 2012 06:00 PM |
"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 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 for everyone. The way of life can be free and 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 abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. 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.
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 [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 unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint 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, the people.
You the people 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 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 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. 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, 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!" - Charlie Chaplin
I want you all to live by this. |
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blobbem
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:01 PM |
| Also the most copied and pasted speech ever. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:01 PM |
tl;dr
ஜNobody's perfect except for me. I'm brilliant.ஜ |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:02 PM |
| @Blob It's still something you should live by. |
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blobbem
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:04 PM |
>It's still something you should live by.
Not really. I would never be in a situation where I will use this quote or think of it. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:06 PM |
| It's pretty much saying that don't live by hate, and that war won't solve our problems. |
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blobbem
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:09 PM |
>It's pretty much saying that don't live by hate, and that war won't solve our problems.
Again, won't ever need to think of that as I won't start a war to solve my problems. Humans are born to hate, though. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:12 PM |
| The hate can be avoided. If we just accept everyone as they are. And if you saw the movie it's the exact opposite of H!ttlers hate speech and it is said in the exact same tone. |
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blobbem
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:14 PM |
>The hate can be avoided.
No. EVERY Human ever born will hate something. It's a trait we Humans have.
The problem with this speech, is that the first time some kid hears it, they immediately go off and post it somewhere. I've seen this a million times now. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:15 PM |
For those who want the speech itself:
v=QcvjoWOwnn4
sleep tight, overrwatcher2... |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:16 PM |
| sometimes hate and war is required. i can not accept everyone for who they are for many are truly bad people. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:16 PM |
| Sure, we are born with hate, but why do we do it so much? |
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8prind
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:18 PM |
| lack of education maybe the hate is misplaced or maybe it is correct to hate a person or group of people. for example the westboro baptist church. id say they are right deserving of any hate they get. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:23 PM |
| It is natural but, for why? Why kill? Why hate? Why discriminate? Although we are cynical why do so much. I understand people make mistakes. But we can try to make amends. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:26 PM |
Best on ever is this:
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:27 PM |
| It is not human nature. Humans can learn to love, we just need to try. |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:32 PM |
| If we are capable why don't we? |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:33 PM |
| i feel like people are posting this everyday now |
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:34 PM |
but no one ever posts the speech from V for Vendetta
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| 04 Sep 2012 06:35 PM |
There are better ones... :/
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