The Greatest Speech Ever Made - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo[/media] I searched the forum and couldn't find it. Anyway, even if this is late, I still think this video is pretty good. Comedians always seem to get their point across better than most people.

Yeah, its late. Yes the speech is also good. [editline]17th September 2011[/editline] Okay, not the exact video I remember being posted but it was still the same person. Broke my automerge. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75w6p7cKB8"]Yeah, it was this video.[/URL]

Manly tears. I didn't expect that to be stirring as it was.

That was actually quite good.

That was a really good speech that is really true, but the video is awful, especially with the changing forms of media, from CG, to news video, to pieces from the "Brick in the wall" music video by pink floyd, it really just put a bad taste in my mouth.

Every time I watch this I hate America a little bit more

released nearly 71 years ago, and how much has actually changed?

[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;32347229]released nearly 71 years ago, and how much has actually changed?[/QUOTE] People are People are People Even 71 years ago, even 60 years ago, even 50 years ago, even 20 years ago, and, believe it or not, even right now. As long as greed exists, people will be there to feed from it.

[QUOTE=99$-Plate;32346676]Yeah, its late. Yes the speech is also good. [editline]17th September 2011[/editline] Okay, not the exact video I remember being posted but it was still the same person. Broke my automerge. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75w6p7cKB8"]Yeah, it was this video.[/URL][/QUOTE] The music goes great with that video.

fucking respect manly tears

This was for a movie where he's playing as Hitler, I don't think anyone is going to take this seriously.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;32349621]This was for a movie where he's playing as Hitler, I don't think anyone is going to take this seriously.[/QUOTE]Well Hitler [I]was[/I] a great public speaker. It's quite a powerful speech and I wouldn't take away from it just because of that.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;32349621]This was for a movie where he's playing as Hitler, I don't think anyone is going to take this seriously.[/QUOTE] I and many other take it seriously, I always cry a bit when I watch this.

I like this better: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLtj-U6havs[/media]

fuck stop posting it

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;32350744]I like this better: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLtj-U6havs[/media][/QUOTE]That audio combined with the video in OP is perfect shit man

Man, it sucks how anon decided to use it for that bullshit anti-facebook stuff

Indeed the greatest speech ever.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;32349621]This was for a movie where he's playing as Hitler, I don't think anyone is going to take this seriously.[/QUOTE]If you see other scenes he's an angry dictator like hitler

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqXPrylWkBE[/media] Song in OP Listen to the album its good

[QUOTE=N.A.N.B;32351763]Man, it sucks how anon decided to use it for that bullshit anti-facebook stuff[/QUOTE] yeah, definitely. It's such a well done speech from such a classic it sucks that those idiots took it and made it for something stupid

The Great Dictator has to be one of Chaplain's greatest films, truly a great piece of the 20th century

Sounds like music from Inception. Edit: Oh wait.

Wow That was probably the most powerful speech I've heard in... ever. Play that VERY loudly during a revolution, or a riot, and you'd probably make everyone stop and realize something very important to themselves. [editline]18th September 2011[/editline] I'm saving it, just in case. Chaplin is boss.

As late as this is, it is still awesome. The Great Dictator was pretty ahead of its time in my opinion.

[QUOTE=Sergeant Stacker;32368665]As late as this is, it is still awesome. The Great Dictator was pretty ahead of its time in my opinion.[/QUOTE] fifty, to a hundred years from now it'll still be pretty strong I think. I seriously want to see the reactions of a crowd of people to this. [code]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 airplane 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 fulfill 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![/code] found the speech in text form

This speech is about 70(citation needed) years old. But it still fits so much. Kinda sad.

[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;32349621]This was for a movie where he's playing as Hitler, I don't think anyone is going to take this seriously.[/QUOTE]Spoken like a true fuckwit. But it's true. Everyone, especially America got butthurt and eventually deported Chaplin for being a communist. He called himself a humanist. Sympathy is a thing that is stifled in todays world. Even more during the cold war since any words about community and equality was evil communism. He spent his whole life in America and all it took for them to kick him out was compassion and a wish to better the place for everyone. To ensure rights and acceptable living terms for everyone.