Lyrics/Text: https://genius.com/Charlie-chaplin-der-groe-diktator-rede-annotated "I'm sorry, but I don't want to be a ruler of the world, because that's not in me. I do not want to rule, nor conquer anyone,but to help people wherever I can. The Jews, the Gentiles, the colored people, the white people. Each person should help the other, only in this way we improve the world. We should share in each other's happiness and not detest each other. Hatred and contempt will never bring us closer. In this world there is room enough for everyone, and Mother Earth is rich enough to satisfy each of us. Life can be so joyful and wonderful. We just have to learn to live it again. Greed has buried the good in man, and resentment has poisoned souls and led us in parade-step to corruption and bloodguilt. We have developed the speed but inwardly we have stopped. We let machines work for us and they also think for us. Cleverness has made us arrogant, and our knowledge cold and hard. We speak too much and feel too little. But first comes humanity and only then the machines. Before wisdom and knowledge comes tolerance and charity. Without humanity and charity our existence is not worth living. Aeroplane and radio have brought us closer together. These inventions have built a bridge, from human to human. They require an all-encompassing brotherhood so that we all become one. Millions of people in the world can hear my voice right now. Millions of desperate people, victims of a system that has made it its business to torture innocent people and put them in chains. To all those who hear me now I call out: You must not despair! Even the bitter suffering that has come upon us is transitory. The men who trample on humanity today will not always be around. Their cruelty dies with them, and so does their hatred. The freedom they took from people will then be returned to them. Even if it costs blood and tears, no sacrifice is too great for freedom. .....