Thread: It could be a better world. If we learn to love each other.

I came across this and thought I would share it with you all and see what your thoughts are

The Greatest Speech Ever Made
By thelakeysisters


It could be a better world. If we learn to love each other.

One of the most important speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin.






Hope... 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, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, 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 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 [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 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, 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!

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."




Your life is a gift, love each other, respect each other and HELP each other

A great movie and poignant speech. If only reason always prevailed it would indeed be a better world.

As reality is rather more chaotic than that, we need to carry that idealism forward. Those ideals are achieved as surely with ten thousand small steps as they would with some mythical panacea that will never materialize. If we don't lose sight of that, then we move closer to that day.

really love it... but its not possible really man go and look all over the place u will find that its too late and it is not possible now!!

Originally Posted by smackdown

really love it... but its not possible really man go and look all over the place u will find that its too late and it is not possible now!!

I have to respectfully disagree; I think can never be too late. I believe though that people will not change through the will of others, but the change must come from themselves and within. People won't change unless they want to change (for whatever reason that may be).

Originally Posted by smackdown

really love it... but its not possible really man go and look all over the place u will find that its too late and it is not possible now!!

Any thing is possible it depends on you and how much you want things to be.

Treat people as you your self would want to be treated

This is the best speech ive ever heard!!! And people its never too late! "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail - Ralph Waldo Emerson" we have the time till the last breath left to change ourselves !so dont be reluctant accept your mistakes and help each other to make this world a better place :)
Peace Out.

well i totally agree. If we live together with harmony then i think we will reach the end of many misunderstandings and will better understand each other.
I pray to GOD that he may unite the people of the whole world and so make this world a better place to live in.

Yeah this thread kinda happened a few days ago.. lol Awesome speech nonetheless. At the begining I didn't know it was chaplin... so uhh, I was confused. Did anyone else think it was hitler?

Originally Posted by dagtheman

At the begining I didn't know it was chaplin... so uhh, I was confused. Did anyone else think it was hitler?

Dude...seriously? lol!

This speach is just as important today as it was then. Also it's important to notice that it's in the small things the great things starts. If you and I can agree, and be friends after an argument, we are an example to others. That's how the ball get in action and starts to roll.
I also really like what Sky46 said: "Treat people as you your self would want to be treated"