+Garrick Groover It does, but forgets. And as powerful as liberty and democracy is, so too are dictators and the brutes of his speech, brutes that learn as much as the rest of us do. And as these brutes must die, so too must their opposition someday, so the people that have seen and fought their terror are not present to fight the next batch of brutes and machine men.
"There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation."
nope. no matter how strong of a hold you think you have on history, knowledge will never path the road for human progress without awareness. to have knowledge is one thing; it's all around us each second we live. but to be aware of it, ha, now that's a fit
Fun fact Charlie Chaplin hated the idea of movies having sound he feared people hearing his voice yet he ended up creating the best on screen monologue! A true legend, Charlie Chaplin was far beyond his times.
just as "funny" as being blacklisted for saying this and then making sure to be burried in London and not the USSA. "in the name of progress and humanity kill everyliving thing on Earth then even the idea of life itself as nothing is superior to a human as we humans simply take for granted as life and living itself..
Especially in a movie that was very harshly hated by moviegoers who saw this movie when it was originally released primarily citing Chaplin's character bearing a resemblance to Adolf Hitler
I've never seen this film, but I saw a video essay talking about how necessary this film was, especially when the iron was still hot from WWII. The world needed to laugh at the Nazis to be able to move past them and be better. So I was not expecting this speech, to say the least. The thing I find incredible about this speech the most is how he actually takes Hitler's delivery and rhetoric and turns it on its head to have such a positive spin. He literally follows the same tone of speaking. Starting low, calm, and conversational, staying very personal, but when addressing the people and the troops, he raises his tone and passionately yells, moving his whole body. It's genuinely awe insirping how in this speech Charlie Chaplin essentially faced the most destructive and hateful man known on earth at the time and laughed in his face. And when he was through, he told the world not to be afraid and to hope. I have so much respect for Charlie Chaplin after listening to this speech. Absolutely incredible.
we just have to learn to balance it out, because yeah it surely makes life easier, and there is nothing wrong with that, but people can get really obsessed with it, so just show them that there is much more to life, by living your at its peak, and they'll understand.. Otherwise it would be just a monochromatic rush of competition and survival within a forced system that the majority thinks that its like that and that it can't change, and that's not life to me.. and I feel like that's a way to go about life where no one gets really to live lol. Maybe when everything will be automated then we'll have nothing better to do but to face ourselves and each other and be honest and appreciate each other..
@@hellomate639 Except that by blindly clicking "I consent", or "I agree", to terms of service, wherever they may be, especially Google, Facebook, Twitters' etc. services, you consent to your data being used that way. You and me both. And anyone else using this bloody platform. And why, Barbara, do you have to make this about Trump, somehow? Can we go five minutes without someone needlessly bringing him up, on the internet? No? Most politicians are the same, it's just how they mince their words that are different. Scumbags the lot of them.
Growing up, my dad had a wooden framed print of this speech, plus a picture of Chaplin from another one of his movies. I remember reading this every day I was at home, and as I grew older, the more and more I understood his speech. I think this is something everyone, at any point of their lives, should listen to at least once. This speech was, is, and will always be on point. YOU ARE NOT MACHINES YOU ARE NOT CATTLE YOU'RE MEN.
TitoRag I am asking everyone to share this video on social media. At this point in politics and instability of the world we the people, Congress and Senate need to hear this. Share share share if it goes viral we may be able to make a little difference....thanks !
It's sad that we so often dismiss this kind of idealism as naive and unrealistic. Nothing he's said is unrealistic - our desire to build each other up really is more fundamental than all of the hatred and greed. If we could only learn to unite and trust one another, we'd have a bond stronger than any natural disaster, than any adversary, could overcome. Come on - we could turn Star Trek into a documentary, people!
I was also thinking about Star Trek. But remember that in Star Trek civilizations didn’t make warp technology until the necessity had arrived. Much like a procrastinator the final night of his potential freedom. The civilizations destroyed themselves to see and understand how far they had strayed from who they are. Vulcan nearly annihilated themselves. Unfortunately I see no situation in which earth unites without a Great War or situation of strife.
We need to give power to people who seem gentle and caring, people who want to make the world a better place for everyone, and not egocentric extravagant leaders such as Trump.
Notice how Chaplin doesn''t blink from 2:09 till the end of the speech. Captivates me every time and really speaks directly to me because of that focus and attention.
The ending of the film was meant to be funny, but the second he found out France had surrendered , he scrapped the ending at made this exact speech from the middle of nowhere
Ironic then that France occupied lots of countries in Africa and Asia... as it seems so sad that France got occupied. Ironic also that France happily developed and tested a lot of nuclear weapons... a wolf in sheep clothing, as US and UK have been for decades. Not to mention Nagasaki and Hiroshima... the "free world" is quite the opposite then what you think. Well today, the "free world" is occupied by debt and bankers. Slaves... who hardly can afford a home with a high technical job. Iron curtain is real.
A leader isn't a person who makes people feel powerless. A leader is a person who is capable of understanding the potential and abilities of his members/people. He brings the best out of them and inspires the people to bring the best. This in turn benefits the entire team/nation. No one is segregated or separated from this system. A true leader unites people not divide them.
@@diobrando1131 He was a communist. He left the US on a visit back to England and was denied re-entry. Freedom didn't extend very far in The Land of the Free even back then.
@@fredfredrickson5436 Charlie Chaplin definitely wasn't a communist, although that didn't stop him from being targeted during the Red Scare (just like virtually every single other progressive-minded person at the time).
@@fredfredrickson5436 "Freedom didn't extend very far" The policies introduced to counter soviet subversion were successful and ensured your freedom today. Allowing freedom to those who seek to undermine the foundations of a free society is a foolish move, characterising moves to preserve freedom as anti freedom because of the impact on bad actors is ridiculous.
"we want to live by each others happiness not by each others misery" - of all the ageless quotes in this speech this has to be the most incredible. Love to all.
I'm 37 years old and feel a certain amount of shame that I not only didn't know this speech but didn't even know about it. It should be mentioned in the same breath as some of the other great speeches in history...incredible
@@coolhandluke1503 even harder? That was on the verge of the most terrible war in the history of mankind, and you compare it to what we have today. A bit hypocrite, if you ask me.
@@hounddog1 Not necessarily. You would have thought the world would have learned a lesson after the most terrible war in history, and yet immediately following it the superpowers started mass manufacturing of world ending weaponry and came to the brink of total annihilation several times during the cold war and even now there are tensions surrounding racism, sexuality and the bodily rights of individuals. We haven't learned anything from history.
I just want to bring up a quick detail that people tend to overlook with this scene. The look of desperation at the end, after he salutes the crowd, is not coincidental. His look of determination and morally righteous anger fades into one of hopelessness and disillusionment, as he lays his hand upon his head, as if to comfort himself from the shock of his sudden realization; the crowd cheers and chants in unison, as they had for the evil dictator he is mistaken for. The crowd is neither good nor evil, a force of great and powerful will, aimless and wanting of leadership. In that moment, he realizes - the struggle will never end. There will be no great victory, no lasting triumph of good over evil. Forever will we have to fight over the hearts of men, and he carries this realization as a heavy burden.
Dom Cobb As long as some men and women are allowed to have ultimate power over the masses there will never be peace and true love in this world,only greed and hate and envy for what others have that some people want and will never have!
Do you realize he is taking you like Hitler and driving you to fight? Fight whome I ask. It starts with ideology and by the end you're ready to fight. Don't you get it?
@@EthanBSide Well, if Hitler and others co-opt this rhetoric, what are you going to do? I suggest to analyse who they accuse of being the problem. In the case of Hitler, it was the Jews and this doesn't check out. In the case of this barber, it was supposedly democratic governments driving their people into imperialist wars, and this seems accurate.
Pasting Zimmer's track over this adds nothing. You could try Akira the Don's track though. He uses the music as a vehicle for the words, keeping the speech as the focus.
The most interesting part here has to be how Chaplin's character goes over the course of 3 minutes goes from speaking in a quiet, calm, dejected manner manner to making a fervent, impassioned Hitler-style speech, but one about unity, freedom and tolerance, not chauvinism and aggression.
All speak about unity, freedom, tolerance and hitler started his speaches very slow too. As Chaplin said all promise similar things, the actions make the difference.
Interestingly here he is using Hitler’s method all the way through- to start off small and quiet as so to force people to listen closely, then build up into a passionate fervour. But whereas Hitler used his speaking power to preach hatred, Chaplain here used his power to make an impassioned plea to fight against injustice.
Chaplin'movies was more than slapstick comedy. there were always societal criticism. His caracter of the tramp can never resist to save the others from injustice . And lower classes saw themselves in him. but espacially his goggedness to survive and be happy. "Smile"! (sorry for my english)
Comedic acting is probably the most difficult form of acting ever. Anyone can cry and act sad or angry, but it’s extremely difficult to be and act really funny.
I realised this movie was made before WW2 and when I reached the speech it made me extremely emotional. He was warning the world of what was about to happen and that, sadly, finally did happen. His face right after "let us all unite" (3'22") shows the real pain of a wise man who knew unity was not going to take place .
Never in my life have I ever cried at a speech, but this put tears down my cheeks. I never thought someone giving a speech would ever move me to tears. I guess I was wrong. This is the most beautiful symphony of words I’ve heard in a long time. Because this is a man who truly believes what he’s saying and he truly cares and loves humanity. This is the first time I’ve ever heard this, but I will never forget it.
Ricc Cliff I am asking everyone to share this video on social media. At this point in politics and instability of the world we the people, Congress and Senate need to hear this. Share share share if it goes viral we may be able to make a little difference....thanks !
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, this speech has been on my mind, and so I had to find and watch it again. I'm not sure how to feel about how relevant it still is.
I have only just found this speech, and it is one that I will remember and live by for the rest of my life. *"You do not hate! Only the unloved hate!"*
I have watched this speech numerous times. It's still one of the most powerful moments, and not just on screen! Eighty some odd years later, and it's still just as powerful as it was when it came out. And we're still acting like idiots in this world.
I still believe Charlie Chaplin's powerful speech (satirically in Hilter costume) during the movie, "The Great Dictator" is the most powerful speech of the modern age and is as timely now as it was the day it was filmed; especially when you consider Chaplin was one of the silent picture era's most talented actors.
Somehow we think that the responsibility to create a better world only lies within the reach of others. We all have a key part to play. This speech is a great reminder of that.
I will copy/paste what I wrote for another:Start practicing the Golden Rule. It is the basic law for most all religions, and all the rest is just commentary (as the Jewish religion says)
The Golden Rule is human - it's nothing to do with religion. I'm an Atheist, yet I use the Golden Rule, I treat others as I'd like to be treated. It's a basic principal of humanity and evolution, religion has no monopoly over it.
Brilliant, so apt for today. Chaplin, the silent clown, who came from poverty to fame and wealth, when he finally spoke, speaks a wisdom for all time. This is the best speech I have ever heard.
"More than machinery, we need humanity. More then cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness." Even pulled out of the context of the rest of this speech, I love these two sentences. It's such a pure, simple sentiment. It's a reminder that at our very core, we are social, caring animals, and that for all of our advancements, complications and conflicts, they don't define us. While our progression may have made our lives easier, it is never what gives us meaning.
"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 year is 2020. We need humanity, kindness and gentleness.
Still, 'round and 'round we all go. I should think so many people would have been enlightened by this amazing oratory that a real change would have come everywhere Humanity lives. But why not, that's what we need to know! I grew up during the 1960s, and saw remarkable people with dreams and ideals, very much like Charlie Chaplin. So many of these were shot down at the apex of influence on the world. Some, like Chaplin, had to leave their home just because they refused to kowtow to the machine, powers that be, the Man, the establishment, fascist pigs, homemade religions. Maybe we can't overwhelm these evils because we ARE the evils ourselves. Many of us don't look at ourselves that closely, or just give in and ignore for the sake of making their family safe and comfortable. { Appropriate song lyric here... } We all have a song that fits, dare we sing them?
We still can. Brutes still lie. But greed can still pass, along with the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. And liberty will still never perish.
Heisenberg- That's bullcrap and you know it. It is human nature to survive, not to obtain power. We want to live, not rule over people, but there are those that think power is safety, power is survival, when it's not. Yes, it may be human nature to want things, but want and greed are two entirely different things. it is not natural to claim everything as yours or take when you need not. when two deer graze in the woods, they do no fight over all the grass, but only fight over it when the grass is sparse. Greed is the unnatural thing here, not rising above it. the native americans did not fight within their tribes over food. No, it was shared with the entire tribe, even the tribal screw up. Greed was developed, not inherited. What is it we teach our children when they are young? Share with others, unless times have changed so drastically since I was young. So to counter your point, Yes we can overcome greed, intolerance and hatred, and the fight to do so starts with people like you, like me, like millions of other people across the world. It starts with abstaining from what we do not need, so that others that starve themselves to sleep may go to bed with full stomachs. it starts with a single act of kindness. Don't be the pessimist that gives up before the task has started, be the optimist that tries his best to make the world better with the simple acts that they do every day. For it is those people who affect the world for the better, rather than keep it in proverbial squalor.
This should be televised on television as a commercial to open eyes!❤ this is very powerful, politicians should listen to this everyday before making laws, awareness
I know I’m going to come off as a hipster, but I’ve been pushing this film (especially this scene) on people for decades now. It’s so perfect. Was Chaplin a perfect person, no (but no one ever is, me included). His message and his work will always stand the test of time.
@@Hamphield Right..... Adenoid Hynkel.... Remind me again what was his campaign based on again... and contrast that to the Barber's speech... Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. The barber would have wondered what in the world happened to America ....
@@Hamphield He would dis like Trump. Trumps done nothing for poverty, health care, gun control and climate change. He's doomed the planet in more ways your simple mind could handle
My teacher had my class watch this short film in the 7th grade.. I still remember this to this day, and being older, it’s crazy how much more you understand. How much more things like this make sense. I had an idea what he was saying back then. But while it still moved me, I had no idea how much truth he was speaking until I got older and was able to see society for myself. This man speaks power. I love it.
It was not just an acting role, it was what he really felt. I just love to see how moved other people are positive about this speech. Bravo to all who understand. We the people could make it a beautiful world.
How accurate this is for right now! I'm guessing all over the world, lots of people are struggling, needing kindness to survive another day, needing compassion and understanding... Let's do this! Saved this video, will watch it again tomorrow, and forward it to people I think will love it. Thank you for your great words Charlie Chaplin, valid at all times :)
"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." It's a testament to Chaplin's wisdom that this is just as relevant now. Messages like these are sorely needed in the current political climate.
One of the best speeches ever put on film. Man does it hit home even now 80 years later. Finally watched the entire film too and it was awesome. Great satire while also giving a proper hard-hitting message. Charlie Chaplin truly is amazing and timeless.
More than ever? we never had anything equal to the period of WW2 but sure...how brain dead are you? We have minor problems and conflicts and this movie has been made where world war 2 was rising with a real danger and real conflicts and war..*facepalm* go play a videogame and make your own doomed world but dont carry it arround
Puella Magi Homura Akemi Do you not recognise the merits of this speech? We have great possessions, great material, great livelihoods, but at what cost? People are alienated from one another more so now than ever. Mental illness, suicide, depression, alienation all plague western society more than it ever has despite our great quality of life. We have lost humanity in our labour, our personality, our possessions. Our possessions are created by one of many enslaved labourers, each of our possessions is one of many that they have created. Our modernization and industrialization has led to wage slavery and a state of great suffering throughout the majority of people. Mankind became slaves to material as a result. We progress not for the benefit of humanity but for the benefit of those who lead our government, our businesses, our armies, our factories and our farms.
If you needed anything to prove that we haven't emotionally evolved at all in hundreds of years, listen to Charlie Chaplin. That monologue has been accurate for all of civilization. We have advanced technologically, that's it. We've remained in stagnation or regressed in all other areas.
Possibly the greatest speech ever written. I wrote a paper on this for history class, it was accepted when i argued that its as real as any presidential speech
It’s heartbreaking to think of the reaction this masterpiece got when it first came out. When America saw this, they were led to believe that Chaplin was a Communist, which they viewed as a danger. They ignored his message of understanding and compassion and only furthered the hate and prejudice and persecution and oppression in the world. We can’t keep making the same mistakes.
Of course we can. I think you meant "we shouldn't make the same mistakes". Humanity has proven itself quite capable of continually repeating the same mistakes and undertaking the same actions that lead to immense suffering, not because of "stupidity" or "evil" inherent to "human nature", but because of evolving social and material conditions, which make these patterns somewhat different each time with somewhat different results but always involving pain and misery. There is no "cure" for self-inflicted human suffering, simply because it is part of the human experience. Now this might sound arrogant and patronizing coming from someone who hasn't experienced anything near the extent of what human suffering can look like, but this isn't an advocation to do nothing and passively suffer. You can fight back against this experience, and you might even win a tiny bit of the wisdom necessary to avoid it again along the way. This film doesn't need to end war and oppression for it to have achieved its goal. It helped those who watched it understand those phenomena a little better, and maybe some of that wisdom rubbed off on them and helped the world along the way. Is there really any better goal for the creator of such a work to have?
I thought the same because the movie (with Robert Downey Jr.) implied it, but from what I researched, The Great Dictator was a hit and highly praised by both FDR and Winston Churchill.
@@spacekraken9636 Having compassion and human decency is a purely communist value? Democracy is a purely communist value? Besides, he was an Anarchist, not a Communist.
I grew up in comunism, never heard of greed or upper or lower class, people were much closer to one another,ate only organic food...the greed of the west ruined that human livelihood status that seems to be long gone...now the East block eats second grade food,works for the west and cant grow the crops they want cause the west says so ... Sad
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Still relevant today as it was back in the the 1940s. Humanity never learns.
+Garrick Groover It does, but forgets. And as powerful as liberty and democracy is, so too are dictators and the brutes of his speech, brutes that learn as much as the rest of us do. And as these brutes must die, so too must their opposition someday, so the people that have seen and fought their terror are not present to fight the next batch of brutes and machine men.
"There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation."
nope. no matter how strong of a hold you think you have on history, knowledge will never path the road for human progress without awareness.
to have knowledge is one thing; it's all around us each second we live. but to be aware of it, ha, now that's a fit
It's a never ending struggle. Their will always be cruelty and greed in the world but that doesn't mean we can't keep on fighting it.
We lost the way...
When he is silent everyone is laughing. When he talks everyone is silent. Great man great speech
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Poetic justice.
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Wiser words have never been spoken
Wise words
He said "dictators die" with so much passion in his voice
I think it is time to share this video far and wide... I have already shared this a few years back, but I think its time to let it loose again
Fun fact Charlie Chaplin hated the idea of movies having sound he feared people hearing his voice yet he ended up creating the best on screen monologue! A true legend, Charlie Chaplin was far beyond his times.
Ironic how a silent film actor made the greatest movie speech of all time that is relevant even to today
just as "funny" as being blacklisted for saying this and then making sure to be burried in London and not the USSA.
"in the name of progress and humanity kill everyliving thing on Earth then even the idea of life itself as nothing is superior to a human as we humans simply take for granted as life and living itself..
Especially in a movie that was very harshly hated by moviegoers who saw this movie when it was originally released primarily citing Chaplin's character bearing a resemblance to Adolf Hitler
@@georgedoolittle7574 Chaplin wasn't buried in London.
Karl Smith Wasnt that the point? To make fun of Hitler
@@georgedoolittle7574 you do realise he was British right?
This is the most beautiful speech I've ever heard in my life.
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I've never seen this film, but I saw a video essay talking about how necessary this film was, especially when the iron was still hot from WWII. The world needed to laugh at the Nazis to be able to move past them and be better. So I was not expecting this speech, to say the least. The thing I find incredible about this speech the most is how he actually takes Hitler's delivery and rhetoric and turns it on its head to have such a positive spin. He literally follows the same tone of speaking. Starting low, calm, and conversational, staying very personal, but when addressing the people and the troops, he raises his tone and passionately yells, moving his whole body. It's genuinely awe insirping how in this speech Charlie Chaplin essentially faced the most destructive and hateful man known on earth at the time and laughed in his face. And when he was through, he told the world not to be afraid and to hope. I have so much respect for Charlie Chaplin after listening to this speech. Absolutely incredible.
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When the man famous for never speaking finally did, he had something to say.
Wise men speak when they have something to say, Fools Speak when they have to say something... Charlie was no fool
When a comment absolutely nails it. 👏
"Machinery that was designed to give us plenty now leaves us in want." Those words alone speak for the 21st century
Without a doubt, they most definitely do
we just have to learn to balance it out, because yeah it surely makes life easier, and there is nothing wrong with that, but people can get really obsessed with it, so just show them that there is much more to life, by living your at its peak, and they'll understand..
Otherwise it would be just a monochromatic rush of competition and survival within a forced system that the majority thinks that its like that and that it can't change, and that's not life to me.. and I feel like that's a way to go about life where no one gets really to live lol.
Maybe when everything will be automated then we'll have nothing better to do but to face ourselves and each other and be honest and appreciate each other..
@@ddmmrr103 I want to not have my data used to profit off of me without my consent, or if I do, I want a share of that profit.
@@hellomate639 Except that by blindly clicking "I consent", or "I agree", to terms of service, wherever they may be, especially Google, Facebook, Twitters' etc. services, you consent to your data being used that way.
You and me both.
And anyone else using this bloody platform.
And why, Barbara, do you have to make this about Trump, somehow? Can we go five minutes without someone needlessly bringing him up, on the internet? No?
Most politicians are the same, it's just how they mince their words that are different.
Scumbags the lot of them.
“Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hand and unkind”
Growing up, my dad had a wooden framed print of this speech, plus a picture of Chaplin from another one of his movies. I remember reading this every day I was at home, and as I grew older, the more and more I understood his speech.
I think this is something everyone, at any point of their lives, should listen to at least once. This speech was, is, and will always be on point.
YOU ARE NOT MACHINES
YOU ARE NOT CATTLE
YOU'RE MEN.
Isn't it awesome that the speach is still inspiring people!
Greatest silent film actor gave the greatest speach
The Irony. It's beautiful
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Fun Fact. Charlie Chaplins grandaughter played Robb Starks wife in Game of thrones
Yeah he fucking did. He did it without fear.
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76 years later
We still need this speech and that makes me really, really sad
Just as tyrants die, so do liberators. Humanity is not a noun, it is a verb, much like struggle.
I think we need this speech even more nowadays.
jesus wept......
lmao
Indeed,Your right it's so true, the world is filled with hatred...
TitoRag I am asking everyone to share this video on social media. At this point in politics and instability of the world we the people, Congress and Senate need to hear this. Share share share if it goes viral we may be able to make a little difference....thanks !
Charlie Chaplin was way ahead of his time. This basic speech of simple human kindness toward one another is still relevant in the 21st. Century.
No matter how many times I listen to this, it's always as powerful as the first time. It gives me chills. It gives me hope through my depression.
Absolutely
this speech always makes me cry. it's so powerful, so genuine. he truly believed in what he said and that such a thing was possible.
This is without question the best speech in movie history, and the best speech overall!
I really feel like this came from his heart.
It did. He wrote and acted this scene, and produced and directed this movie. It's 100% Chaplin all the way through.
It's sad that we so often dismiss this kind of idealism as naive and unrealistic. Nothing he's said is unrealistic - our desire to build each other up really is more fundamental than all of the hatred and greed. If we could only learn to unite and trust one another, we'd have a bond stronger than any natural disaster, than any adversary, could overcome. Come on - we could turn Star Trek into a documentary, people!
Social media was just one big mistake in my opinion. It connected us to everyone at once and also further removed us from actual humanity.
I was also thinking about Star Trek. But remember that in Star Trek civilizations didn’t make warp technology until the necessity had arrived. Much like a procrastinator the final night of his potential freedom. The civilizations destroyed themselves to see and understand how far they had strayed from who they are. Vulcan nearly annihilated themselves. Unfortunately I see no situation in which earth unites without a Great War or situation of strife.
"You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - The unloved and the unnatural!"
-Charlie Chaplin
I am going to remember that one.
Who is watching this in 2020? We need this more than ever.
I am. I really wish charlie chaplin was still alive to make this world a better and safer place.
Yes we do!
@@GeolyteGM He is alive, in our memories and in our actions, if you want him to be.
We need to give power to people who seem gentle and caring, people who want to make the world a better place for everyone, and not egocentric extravagant leaders such as Trump.
We should air this on tv
Notice how Chaplin doesn''t blink from 2:09 till the end of the speech. Captivates me every time and really speaks directly to me because of that focus and attention.
The ending of the film was meant to be funny, but the second he found out France had surrendered , he scrapped the ending at made this exact speech from the middle of nowhere
Ironic then that France occupied lots of countries in Africa and Asia... as it seems so sad that France got occupied. Ironic also that France happily developed and tested a lot of nuclear weapons... a wolf in sheep clothing, as US and UK have been for decades. Not to mention Nagasaki and Hiroshima... the "free world" is quite the opposite then what you think.
Well today, the "free world" is occupied by debt and bankers. Slaves... who hardly can afford a home with a high technical job. Iron curtain is real.
@@RogerCillion We tested like 60 bombs. The US and Russia tested over a thousand each.
A leader isn't a person who makes people feel powerless. A leader is a person who is capable of understanding the potential and abilities of his members/people. He brings the best out of them and inspires the people to bring the best. This in turn benefits the entire team/nation. No one is segregated or separated from this system. A true leader unites people not divide them.
Charlie Chaplin was an anarchist, he did not want leaders lol
"We think too much and feel too little"
Man, i like that quote
I think Nixon plagiarized it.
When a comedian in the 1940's is more progressive than modern day politicians.
He was anarchist maybe that’s why
@@diobrando1131 He was a communist. He left the US on a visit back to England and was denied re-entry. Freedom didn't extend very far in The Land of the Free even back then.
@@fredfredrickson5436 Charlie Chaplin definitely wasn't a communist, although that didn't stop him from being targeted during the Red Scare (just like virtually every single other progressive-minded person at the time).
@@fredfredrickson5436 "Freedom didn't extend very far" The policies introduced to counter soviet subversion were successful and ensured your freedom today. Allowing freedom to those who seek to undermine the foundations of a free society is a foolish move, characterising moves to preserve freedom as anti freedom because of the impact on bad actors is ridiculous.
@@nickd.9955 He definitely was a socialist. Everybody defines communism differently though. :)
"we want to live by each others happiness not by each others misery" - of all the ageless quotes in this speech this has to be the most incredible. Love to all.
I'm 37 years old and feel a certain amount of shame that I not only didn't know this speech but didn't even know about it. It should be mentioned in the same breath as some of the other great speeches in history...incredible
it would make chaplin so proud to know that this speech lives in and continue to inspire
I think he would be rolling in his grave if he knew 80 years on were being fucked even harder because we still haven't united to stand against tyranny
@@coolhandluke1503 even harder? That was on the verge of the most terrible war in the history of mankind, and you compare it to what we have today. A bit hypocrite, if you ask me.
@@hounddog1 Not necessarily. You would have thought the world would have learned a lesson after the most terrible war in history, and yet immediately following it the superpowers started mass manufacturing of world ending weaponry and came to the brink of total annihilation several times during the cold war and even now there are tensions surrounding racism, sexuality and the bodily rights of individuals. We haven't learned anything from history.
Thank God for this version......🤗without the unnecessary music
Chaplin's version....
I can tell this came from his heart and when he finished his speech he didn’t realize how good it felt to let all of this off his chest
My old man showed me this movie and I became addicted to this speech.
Your old man is a good man
I just want to bring up a quick detail that people tend to overlook with this scene. The look of desperation at the end, after he salutes the crowd, is not coincidental. His look of determination and morally righteous anger fades into one of hopelessness and disillusionment, as he lays his hand upon his head, as if to comfort himself from the shock of his sudden realization; the crowd cheers and chants in unison, as they had for the evil dictator he is mistaken for. The crowd is neither good nor evil, a force of great and powerful will, aimless and wanting of leadership. In that moment, he realizes - the struggle will never end. There will be no great victory, no lasting triumph of good over evil. Forever will we have to fight over the hearts of men, and he carries this realization as a heavy burden.
Dom Cobb As long as some men and women are allowed to have ultimate power over the masses there will never be peace and true love in this world,only greed and hate and envy for what others have that some people want and will never have!
Do you realize he is taking you like Hitler and driving you to fight? Fight whome I ask. It starts with ideology and by the end you're ready to fight. Don't you get it?
You are a moron. This is satire.
@@EthanBSide
Well, if Hitler and others co-opt this rhetoric, what are you going to do?
I suggest to analyse who they accuse of being the problem.
In the case of Hitler, it was the Jews and this doesn't check out.
In the case of this barber, it was supposedly democratic governments driving their people into imperialist wars, and this seems accurate.
Did you copy this directly from Reddit???
History repeats itself. This speech makes 100% sense in 2021
Finally, found a version without the overbearing annoying music
Agreed Matthew. The version with the Hans Zimmer music is truly appalling! The speech is pure music anyway...
Pasting Zimmer's track over this adds nothing. You could try Akira the Don's track though. He uses the music as a vehicle for the words, keeping the speech as the focus.
Watch the movie, the greatest movie ever, great dictator.
The most interesting part here has to be how Chaplin's character goes over the course of 3 minutes goes from speaking in a quiet, calm, dejected manner manner to making a fervent, impassioned Hitler-style speech, but one about unity, freedom and tolerance, not chauvinism and aggression.
All speak about unity, freedom, tolerance and hitler started his speaches very slow too. As Chaplin said all promise similar things, the actions make the difference.
Interestingly here he is using Hitler’s method all the way through- to start off small and quiet as so to force people to listen closely, then build up into a passionate fervour. But whereas Hitler used his speaking power to preach hatred, Chaplain here used his power to make an impassioned plea to fight against injustice.
Why do I always cry watching this speech? 😥
It's strange that one of the best speeches I've ever heard comes from a slapstick comedy
Chaplin'movies was more than slapstick comedy. there were always societal criticism. His caracter of the tramp can never resist to save the others from injustice . And lower classes saw themselves in him. but espacially his goggedness to survive and be happy. "Smile"! (sorry for my english)
Not really slapstick. It was silent cinema in an age when talkies already existed, Thsts not necessarily slapstick
Physical Comedy is not the same as slapstick.
Comedic acting is probably the most difficult form of acting ever. Anyone can cry and act sad or angry, but it’s extremely difficult to be and act really funny.
Slapstick comedy isn't really what he did. He's a pioneer in physical comedy
I realised this movie was made before WW2 and when I reached the speech it made me extremely emotional. He was warning the world of what was about to happen and that, sadly, finally did happen. His face right after "let us all unite" (3'22") shows the real pain of a wise man who knew unity was not going to take place
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Never in my life have I ever cried at a speech, but this put tears down my cheeks. I never thought someone giving a speech would ever move me to tears. I guess I was wrong. This is the most beautiful symphony of words I’ve heard in a long time. Because this is a man who truly believes what he’s saying and he truly cares and loves humanity. This is the first time I’ve ever heard this, but I will never forget it.
Mr Chaplin was a very wise man.
A dreamer.
But, he's not the only one...
I hope some day they'll join us
Ricc Cliff I am asking everyone to share this video on social media. At this point in politics and instability of the world we the people, Congress and Senate need to hear this. Share share share if it goes viral we may be able to make a little difference....thanks !
an extraordinary man, may he rest in peace
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, this speech has been on my mind, and so I had to find and watch it again.
I'm not sure how to feel about how relevant it still is.
very
The world needs this speech more than ever
The greatest speech of all-time.
I has been laughing my ass off for the entire movie, then this part came and I was just speechless.
His voice is still reaching everyone around the world ❤️
He is talking straight to you and me, so take these word to the heart and do what he says
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Greatest film monologue ever?
More than 8 decades ago, still incredibly relevant
I have only just found this speech, and it is one that I will remember and live by for the rest of my life. *"You do not hate! Only the unloved hate!"*
If man cannot learn from history, he is doomed to repeat it.
And so we are.
What you say is true
Your about a year too early
Ain’t that the truth
Fuck that, let's go burn down the Smithsonian!
History does not repeat itself it just rhymes awfully alot
This should never be forgotten
This is legendary
I have watched this speech numerous times. It's still one of the most powerful moments, and not just on screen! Eighty some odd years later, and it's still just as powerful as it was when it came out. And we're still acting like idiots in this world.
IRONICAL
we listen to comedians
and laugh on politicians
The literal definition of satire
I still believe Charlie Chaplin's powerful speech (satirically in Hilter costume) during the movie, "The Great Dictator" is the most powerful speech of the modern age and is as timely now as it was the day it was filmed; especially when you consider Chaplin was one of the silent picture era's most talented actors.
Somehow we think that the responsibility to create a better world only lies within the reach of others. We all have a key part to play. This speech is a great reminder of that.
I will copy/paste what I wrote for another:Start practicing the Golden Rule. It is the basic law for most all
religions, and all the rest is just commentary (as the Jewish religion
says)
The Golden Rule is human - it's nothing to do with religion. I'm an Atheist, yet I use the Golden Rule, I treat others as I'd like to be treated. It's a basic principal of humanity and evolution, religion has no monopoly over it.
So uhhhh...... who's here January 21st 2025?
Brilliant, so apt for today. Chaplin, the silent clown, who came from poverty to fame and wealth, when he finally spoke, speaks a wisdom for all time. This is the best speech I have ever heard.
This message is relevant even today.
Corruption in leadership due to greed is everywhere.
"We need to fight for liberty, not slavery!"...great words..!!!
this speech never loses its effect, no matter how many times it is heard
more than anything ever filmed, this should be universal required viewing
Beautiful sermon
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"More than machinery, we need humanity. More then cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."
Even pulled out of the context of the rest of this speech, I love these two sentences. It's such a pure, simple sentiment. It's a reminder that at our very core, we are social, caring animals, and that for all of our advancements, complications and conflicts, they don't define us. While our progression may have made our lives easier, it is never what gives us meaning.
Oh my, a shiver runs down my spine.
"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 year is 2020. We need humanity, kindness and gentleness.
Still, 'round and 'round we all go. I should think so many people would have been enlightened by this amazing oratory that a real change would have come everywhere Humanity lives. But why not, that's what we need to know! I grew up during the 1960s, and saw remarkable people with dreams and ideals, very much like Charlie Chaplin. So many of these were shot down at the apex of influence on the world. Some, like Chaplin, had to leave their home just because they refused to kowtow to the machine, powers that be, the Man, the establishment, fascist pigs, homemade religions. Maybe we can't overwhelm these evils because we ARE the evils ourselves. Many of us don't look at ourselves that closely, or just give in and ignore for the sake of making their family safe and comfortable. { Appropriate song lyric here... }
We all have a song that fits, dare we sing them?
funny man made me cry.
If we all thought like this how great the world would become.
It would be the best. We can all do it too. Just by being kindhearted to each other.
Exactly!
We still can. Brutes still lie. But greed can still pass, along with the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. And liberty will still never perish.
theploughmanslunch We can't dude. It's human nature to crave power and try and get ahead in life regardless of the cost. Sad but true.
Heisenberg- That's bullcrap and you know it. It is human nature to survive, not to obtain power. We want to live, not rule over people, but there are those that think power is safety, power is survival, when it's not. Yes, it may be human nature to want things, but want and greed are two entirely different things. it is not natural to claim everything as yours or take when you need not. when two deer graze in the woods, they do no fight over all the grass, but only fight over it when the grass is sparse. Greed is the unnatural thing here, not rising above it. the native americans did not fight within their tribes over food. No, it was shared with the entire tribe, even the tribal screw up. Greed was developed, not inherited. What is it we teach our children when they are young? Share with others, unless times have changed so drastically since I was young. So to counter your point, Yes we can overcome greed, intolerance and hatred, and the fight to do so starts with people like you, like me, like millions of other people across the world. It starts with abstaining from what we do not need, so that others that starve themselves to sleep may go to bed with full stomachs. it starts with a single act of kindness. Don't be the pessimist that gives up before the task has started, be the optimist that tries his best to make the world better with the simple acts that they do every day. For it is those people who affect the world for the better, rather than keep it in proverbial squalor.
This should be televised on television as a commercial to open eyes!❤ this is very powerful, politicians should listen to this everyday before making laws, awareness
Charlie, your words will echo throughout all of eternity.
We need this today, and everyday.
I know I’m going to come off as a hipster, but I’ve been pushing this film (especially this scene) on people for decades now. It’s so perfect. Was Chaplin a perfect person, no (but no one ever is, me included). His message and his work will always stand the test of time.
Heart touching 💜
Imagine Chaplin seeing us today.
crying of joy seeing the man is now leader of the free world...
@@Hamphield
Right..... Adenoid Hynkel....
Remind me again what was his campaign based on again... and contrast that to the Barber's speech...
Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
The barber would have wondered what in the world happened to America ....
btw its Hitlers speech not charlie Chaplin's
@@Hamphield He would dis like Trump. Trumps done nothing for poverty, health care, gun control and climate change. He's doomed the planet in more ways your simple mind could handle
Yeaaah about that...
My teacher had my class watch this short film in the 7th grade.. I still remember this to this day, and being older, it’s crazy how much more you understand. How much more things like this make sense. I had an idea what he was saying back then. But while it still moved me, I had no idea how much truth he was speaking until I got older and was able to see society for myself. This man speaks power. I love it.
charlie been through hell with families and government and FBI. he is hard working human being. RIP charlie you're still number one movie star .
Possibly the most epic speech in all of cinema!
A beautiful, powerful speech, timeless and haunting. The man had something to say and he said it, it's a shame that not enough people listened.
This should be played to the world especially at times like this
A beautiful scene, Chaplain ended up paying dearly for this in his popularity, and frankly, this was a tremendous hill to die upon.
Such an iconic speech by the GREAT CHARLIE CHAPLIN
It was not just an acting role, it was what he really felt. I just love to see how moved other people are positive about this speech. Bravo to all who understand. We the people could make it a beautiful world.
The world could really use a speech like this in the year of 2020.
"You are not machines... you are men!"
How accurate this is for right now! I'm guessing all over the world, lots of people are struggling, needing kindness to survive another day, needing compassion and understanding... Let's do this!
Saved this video, will watch it again tomorrow, and forward it to people I think will love it. Thank you for your great words Charlie Chaplin, valid at all times :)
"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."
It's a testament to Chaplin's wisdom that this is just as relevant now. Messages like these are sorely needed in the current political climate.
Powerful speech for today's world. When the power of love overcomes the love of power then we shall have peace 🕊️
The speech given by Chaplin still holds true after all these decades.
We need this more then ever.
I had never heard this. I am now more admirer of charles Chaplin. Great words of what the world needs now
I cried listening to this speech at the end of "Great Dictator". Magnificent movie indeed
One of the best speeches ever put on film. Man does it hit home even now 80 years later. Finally watched the entire film too and it was awesome. Great satire while also giving a proper hard-hitting message.
Charlie Chaplin truly is amazing and timeless.
80 years from its release, this speech could not be more relevant.
This speech is something we all need now, more than ever.
More than ever? we never had anything equal to the period of WW2 but sure...how brain dead are you? We have minor problems and conflicts and this movie has been made where world war 2 was rising with a real danger and real conflicts and war..*facepalm* go play a videogame and make your own doomed world but dont carry it arround
Puella Magi Homura Akemi Do you not recognise the merits of this speech? We have great possessions, great material, great livelihoods, but at what cost? People are alienated from one another more so now than ever. Mental illness, suicide, depression, alienation all plague western society more than it ever has despite our great quality of life. We have lost humanity in our labour, our personality, our possessions. Our possessions are created by one of many enslaved labourers, each of our possessions is one of many that they have created. Our modernization and industrialization has led to wage slavery and a state of great suffering throughout the majority of people. Mankind became slaves to material as a result. We progress not for the benefit of humanity but for the benefit of those who lead our government, our businesses, our armies, our factories and our farms.
Have watched the speech a thousand times still gives me goosebumps. 2021
If you needed anything to prove that we haven't emotionally evolved at all in hundreds of years, listen to Charlie Chaplin. That monologue has been accurate for all of civilization. We have advanced technologically, that's it. We've remained in stagnation or regressed in all other areas.
Possibly the greatest speech ever written.
I wrote a paper on this for history class, it was accepted when i argued that its as real as any presidential speech
can we just have this shown of every screen around the world, just once, just to raise awareness of this
will offend those who think democracy is a form of western terrorism and the sjw whoe think offending someone is a worse crime than killing someone
thecursed01 who cares if they are offended??
@@thecursed01 greed has poisoned your soul
One day it will
It’s heartbreaking to think of the reaction this masterpiece got when it first came out.
When America saw this, they were led to believe that Chaplin was a Communist, which they viewed as a danger. They ignored his message of understanding and compassion and only furthered the hate and prejudice and persecution and oppression in the world.
We can’t keep making the same mistakes.
All the stuff he said here literally are communist values.
Of course we can. I think you meant "we shouldn't make the same mistakes".
Humanity has proven itself quite capable of continually repeating the same mistakes and undertaking the same actions that lead to immense suffering, not because of "stupidity" or "evil" inherent to "human nature", but because of evolving social and material conditions, which make these patterns somewhat different each time with somewhat different results but always involving pain and misery.
There is no "cure" for self-inflicted human suffering, simply because it is part of the human experience. Now this might sound arrogant and patronizing coming from someone who hasn't experienced anything near the extent of what human suffering can look like, but this isn't an advocation to do nothing and passively suffer. You can fight back against this experience, and you might even win a tiny bit of the wisdom necessary to avoid it again along the way.
This film doesn't need to end war and oppression for it to have achieved its goal. It helped those who watched it understand those phenomena a little better, and maybe some of that wisdom rubbed off on them and helped the world along the way. Is there really any better goal for the creator of such a work to have?
I thought the same because the movie (with Robert Downey Jr.) implied it, but from what I researched, The Great Dictator was a hit and highly praised by both FDR and Winston Churchill.
@@spacekraken9636 Having compassion and human decency is a purely communist value? Democracy is a purely communist value? Besides, he was an Anarchist, not a Communist.
I grew up in comunism, never heard of greed or upper or lower class, people were much closer to one another,ate only organic food...the greed of the west ruined that human livelihood status that seems to be long gone...now the East block eats second grade food,works for the west and cant grow the crops they want cause the west says so ... Sad
"The ones who speak less are those who have more to say"
Facts.
Raises hand.
Bone Chillingly true , i have to agree with you there bro
Sounds like the silent majority.
That cannot be more true than with Charles Chaplin