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.

- Charlie Chapman

spotted via sagan | sense 

The jewish barber’s speech from The Great Dictator (1940). A poor jewish barber looks just like the bad dictator and is mistaken for him. He uses his chance to deliver a speech to the people disguised as the Dictator. A speech of love and kindness. Chaplin managed to create one of the most beautiful and epic speeches of all time in the end scene of The Great Dictator. 

This speech moves me every time I read it. Every time. 

Source: valley-of-the-dolls

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