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Discussion => Philosophy, Economics and Justice => Topic started by: StaticTension on August 28, 2013, 11:38 pm

Title: This is profound
Post by: StaticTension on August 28, 2013, 11:38 pm
I've always heard these words mixed into dubstep songs or trance songs and always loved them and never knew where it was from. Please read it:

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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 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 good 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, liberty will never perish.
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 or what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you 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 — the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! 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. 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.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us 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 youth the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to 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.

Could you imagine we lived in a world where every President, Prime minister, every person of power lived by those words? Those words were from Charlie Chaplin in the movie The Great Dictator. Who would of thought Charlie Chaplin? Before I looked it up I thought those words were from a Martin Luther King speech or something.  8)
Title: Re: This is profound
Post by: BreakOnThrough on August 28, 2013, 11:52 pm
It is fantastic.  You can listen to it on youtube too :)
Title: Re: This is profound
Post by: SealTeam6 on August 29, 2013, 07:50 am
Charli Chaplin was a great man, good find +1
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Post by: marcellus_wallace on August 29, 2013, 07:59 am
yup charlie chaplin delivered those words about 65 years i believe.
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Post by: incubusdriver on August 29, 2013, 10:26 pm
To say he was THE face of Silent Movies, he had a lot of lyrical wisdom to give
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Post by: thedopestjunkie on August 29, 2013, 10:39 pm
Thanks for this I have heard this before I think on youtube, great piece.
Title: Re: This is profound
Post by: turdburglarSandwich on August 29, 2013, 10:59 pm
Reading those lines, makes the fur stand up on my arms, gives me a tingle. I was privileged this year to see his Holiness the Dali Lama on his tour of the US. Brings me to my knees to understand the human condition. That we are all born of pain, but suffering is a choice. Rage is a choice, causing harm deliberately is choice, screaming at your wife, kids, husband, in traffic, is a choice. None of us get out of this alive, why make it worse?

When I have been picking up the trails of human wreckage left behind after oh, say, a family member's suicide/murder, it makes me very grateful for the lessons I have had to learn to grow, to become.

When I am about to  be a shite, and do so with deliberate intent to be malicious, and cause harm deliberately,  I accept that I am the master and commander of all that is me. I own my actions and reactions. That is what the prophets speak of, what their intent is about.
Title: Re: This is profound
Post by: Savlon on August 29, 2013, 11:36 pm
From the film the great dictator. It is sampled in alot of songs. Great speech. Watched the speech on acid once with all the lights turned off.