Charlie Chaplin, Veliki diktator (1940)

Charlie Chaplin, Veliki diktator (1940)
Žal mi je, a nočem biti vladar. To ni moja stvar. Nikomur ne želim vladati niti ga pokoriti sebi. Rad bi pomagal vsem – če je le mogoče – Judom, poganom, črncem in belcem. Vsi si želimo pomagati drug drugemu. Takšni smo ljudje. Drug drugega želimo osrečevati, ne pa si povzročati trpljenja. Ne želimo se sovražiti in zaničevati. Na tem svetu je prostora za vse. Dobra zemlja je bogata in lahko poskrbi za vse. Lahko bi živeli v svobodi in lepoti, a smo izgubili pot.
Pohlep je zastrupil človeške duše, zabarikadiral svet s sovraštvom, nas pahnil v bedo in prelivanje krvi. Razvili smo hitrost, a se hkrati zaprli vase. Stroji, ki ponujajo obilje, so nas pustili v pomanjkanju. Naše znanje nas je naredilo cinične. Naš um je trd in neprijazen. Preveč razmišljamo in premalo čutimo. Bolj kot stroje potrebujemo človečnost. Bolj kot um potrebujemo dobrotljivost in nežnost. Brez teh lastnosti postaja življenje nasilno in vse bo izgubljeno …
Letalo in radio sta nas zbližala. Sama narava teh izumov kliče po dobroti v ljudeh – poziva k univerzalnemu bratstvu – po enotnosti vseh nas. Že zdaj moj glas doseže milijone ljudi po vsem svetu – milijone obupanih mož, žena in majhnih otrok, žrtev sistema, zaradi katerega ljudje mučijo in zapirajo nedolžne ljudi.
Tistim, ki me lahko slišijo, pravim: Ne obupajte! Nesreča, ki nas je doletela, je le posledica pohlepa – zagrenjenosti ljudi, ki se bojijo poti človeškega napredka. Sovraštvo ljudi bo minilo, diktatorji bodo umrli in oblast, ki so jo vzeli ljudem, se bo ljudem vrnila. Dokler bodo ljudje umirali, svoboda nikoli ne bo umrla …
Vojaki! Ne prepustite se zverem – ljudem, ki vas prezirajo, vas zasužnjujejo, ki upravljajo vaša življenja, vam govorijo, kaj morate storiti, kaj misliti in kaj čutiti!, ki vas dresirajo, prehranjujejo, obravnavajo kot živino in vas uporabljajo za »kanonfuter«. Ne prepustite se tem nenaravnim ljudem – ljudem strojem s strojnimi mislimi in strojnimi srci! Vi niste stroji! Niste živina! Ste ljudje! V vaših srcih je ljubezen do človeštva! Ne sovražite! Sovražijo samo tisti, ki niso ljubljeni – tisti, ki niso ljubljeni, in tisti, ki so nenaravni! Vojaki! Ne bojujte se za suženjstvo! Borite se za svobodo!
V 17. poglavju Evangelija po Luku je zapisano: »Božje kraljestvo je v človeku.« Ne v enem človeku ali skupini ljudi, ampak v vseh ljudeh! V vas! Vi, ljudje, imate moč – moč, da ustvarite stroje. Moč, da ustvarite srečo! Vi, ljudje, imate moč, da naredite to življenje svobodno in lepo, da naredite to življenje za čudovito pustolovščino.
Torej, uporabimo to moč in se združimo  v imenu demokracije. Borimo se za nov svet – dostojen svet, ki bo ljudem omogočal delo, mladim prihodnost, starim pa varnost. Z obljubami o teh stvareh so se na oblast povzpele zveri. Vendar lažejo! Teh obljub ne izpolnjujejo. Nikoli jih ne bodo!
Diktatorji osvobodijo sebe, ljudi pa zasužnjijo! Mi pa se borimo za izpolnitev teh obljub! Prizadevamo si za osvoboditev sveta – za odpravo nacionalnih ovir, za odpravo pohlepa, sovraštva in nestrpnosti. Borimo se za svet razuma, svet, v katerem bosta znanost in napredek vodila k sreči vseh ljudi. Vojaki, v imenu demokracije se združimo!
Charlie Chaplin,* sklepni govor iz filma Veliki diktator (1940) 
*Film je v celoti avtorsko delo Charlieja Chaplina (produkcija, scenarij, režija, glavna vloga, glasbena podlaga). 

English
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 and 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 a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that 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 – 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. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
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