<story><title>The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)</title><url>https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>I always liked this version with music added:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remember sharing a jail cell with a 19-year-old Mexican kid once and we were talking about the guards being assholes and he said &amp;quot;they&amp;#x27;re like machine men&amp;quot;; and I said &amp;quot;with machine minds and machine hearts?&amp;quot; and he was like &amp;quot;YES! You know it?!&amp;quot; -- it was a good moment, we spent the next few days trying to remember the whole speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TaylorAlexander</author><text>This speech reminds me of the anarchist Errico Malatesta. Some of his comrades tried to call him the “Lenin of Italy” and he said he never wants to be the ruler of others, and that no matter how good his heart is if he were put in that position he would be corrupted by power just as everyone else would be. This video covers it:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;KYI-Bra-hP0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;KYI-Bra-hP0&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)</title><url>https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-the-final-speech-from-the-great-dictator-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>qingcharles</author><text>I always liked this version with music added:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remember sharing a jail cell with a 19-year-old Mexican kid once and we were talking about the guards being assholes and he said &amp;quot;they&amp;#x27;re like machine men&amp;quot;; and I said &amp;quot;with machine minds and machine hearts?&amp;quot; and he was like &amp;quot;YES! You know it?!&amp;quot; -- it was a good moment, we spent the next few days trying to remember the whole speech.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnmaguire</author><text>My partner is very partial to this version: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ouzKl0oD6sU&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=ouzKl0oD6sU&lt;/a&gt; :)</text></comment>