closing speech

Chanelle 2022-04-22 07:01:04

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be emperor, that's not my goal. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I want to help everyone, Jews, non-Jews, blacks, whites... We want to help each other, as human beings should be. We want a happy life, not a miserable one. We don't want to hate each other.


In this world, the land is plentiful and it can feed everyone. Life could have been free and beautiful, but we lost our way. Greed erodes the souls of men and blocks the world with hatred. Step by step we go bloody. We are developing rapidly, but at the same time we are self-isolating. The industrial age has made us materialistic. Our knowledge makes us cynical, our intelligence makes us ruthless. We calculate too much and perceive too little. In addition to machines, we need humanity more; in addition to wisdom, we need kindness and courtesy. Without these qualities, life would be violent and nothing would exist...


Airplanes and radios brought us closer to each other, inventions that call upon the human conscience, call upon the brotherhood of the world, and bring us together. Now my voice goes out in all directions. Heard by millions of desperate men, women and children, by those who have suffered under tyranny and who have been imprisoned for no reason. I say to those who can hear me: Don't despair! The misery we are going through is nothing but the suffering of greedy people who fear human progress. The hatred among people will pass, and the dictator will die. The rights they took away will be returned to the hands of the people. As long as mankind does not perish, the fire of freedom will never be extinguished.


soldiers! Don't die for those beasts. Those beasts despise you and enslave you. They manipulate your life and tell you what to think and feel. They train you like cows just to use you as cannon fodder. Don't entrust your destiny to these people! These people are as emotionless as machines. You are not machines, you are not cows, you are people! There is human love in each of you. Do not hate, only those evil people who have no love hate. soldiers! Don't fight for slavery, fight for freedom!


Saint Luke said, "The kingdom of God is among men." Not in one, not in a group, but in all! among you! You have the ability to create machines, you have the ability to create happiness, you have the ability to make life free and beautiful! Turn life into a wonderful adventure! In the name of democracy, let's use this ability! Let us unite and fight for a new world! In this world people will not be unemployed, it will give young people a better future, and old people will be supported.


What those beasts promised us were all lies! They didn't deliver on those promises and never will! A dictator is someone who enjoys his freedom but enslaves others. Now, let's fight to fulfill that promise! Let's fight for a free world! Fight to abolish borders! Fight against greed, hatred and narrow-mindedness! Let's fight for a fair world. That is a world where technology and progress will create happiness for all mankind!


Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us unite!




Hannah, can you hear me?
Wherever you are, look up. hannah!
The dark clouds are dissipating and the sun is shining in. We are emerging from the darkness into a new world, a friendlier world. There will be no hatred, greed and cruelty among people.
Look up! Hannah!
The human soul has wings, he is flying into the rainbow, into the ray of hope, into the future. This glorious future belongs to you, to me, and to all of us.
look! Hannah! look....

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The Great Dictator quotes

  • Adenoid Hynkel: Schultz, why have you forsaken me?

  • Schultz: [plane is upside down] We're upside down!

    A Jewish Barber: I know it.

    Schultz: Give me that stick!

    A Jewish Barber: Impossible.

    Schultz: [engine dies] Oh, there it goes. We're out of gas. Well, this is it then.

    [pulls out cigarette pack]

    Schultz: Cigarette?

    A Jewish Barber: Not now.

    Schultz: Then I shant need this anymore.

    [tosses cigarette pack]