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Greatest Speech Ever Made

A moving speech by Charlie Chaplin. If you can take 4 minutes of your time to watch this video and really listen to his words, if more people would just only listen, this world would be a much better and happier place.

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Re: Greatest Speech Ever Made

I've seen the movie, and this version of it is very good. Very inspirational.

Originally Posted by A.J.P. Taylor

Peaceful agreement and government by consent are possible only on the basis of ideas common to all parties; and these ideas must spring from habit and from history. Once reason is introduced, every man, every class, every nation becomes a law unto itself; and the only right which reason understands is the right of the stronger. Reason formulates universal principles and is therefore intolerant: there can be only one rational society, one rational nation, ultimately one rational man. Decisions between rival reasons can be made only by force.

Originally Posted by H.L Spieghel

Is het niet hogelijk te verwonderen, en een recht beklaaglijke zaak, Heren, dat alhoewel onze algemene Dietse taal een onvermengde, sierlijke en verstandelijke spraak is, die zich ook zo wijd als enige talen des werelds verspreidt, en die in haar bevang veel rijken, vorstendommen en landen bevat, welke dagelijks zeer veel kloeke en hooggeleerde verstanden uitleveren, dat ze nochtans zo zwakkelijk opgeholpen en zo weinig met geleerdheid verrijkt en versiert wordt, tot een jammerlijk hinder en nadeel des volks?

Originally Posted by Miel Cools

Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen,

Oud ben maar nog niet verrot.

Zoals oude bomen zingen,

Voor Jan Lul of voor hun god.

Ook een oude boom wil reizen,

Bij een bries of bij een storm.

Zelfs al zit zijn kruin vol luizen,

Zelfs al zit zijn voet vol worm.

Als ik oud ben wil ik zingen.

Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,

Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,

Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,

'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

Originally Posted by Jörg Friedrich

When do I stop being a justified warrior? When I've killed a million bad civilians? When I've killed three million bad civilians? According to a warsimulation by the Pentagon in 1953 the entire area of Russia would've been reduced to ruins with 60 million casualties. All bad Russians. 60 million bad guys. By how many million ''bad'' casualties do I stop being a knight of justice? Isn't that the question those knights must ask themselves? If there's no-one left, and I remain as the only just one,

Then I'm God.

Originally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes

Governments have been established to aid society to overcome the obstacles which impede its march. Their forms have been varied according to the problems they have been called to cure, and according to character of the people they have ruled over. Their task never has been, and never will be easy, because the two contrary elements, of which our existence and the nature of society is composed, demand the employment of different means. In view of our divine essence, we need only liberty and work; in view of our mortal nature, we need for our direction a guide and a support. A government is not then, as a distinguished economist has said, a necessary ulcer; it is rather the beneficent motive power of all social organisation.

Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held

I walked into those baracks [of Buchenwald concentrationcamp], in which there were people on the three-layered bunkbeds. But only their eyes were alive. Emaciated, skinny figures, nothing more but skin and bones. One thinks that they are dead, because they did not move. Only the eyes. I started to cry. And then one of the prisoners came, stood by me for a while, put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, something that I will never forget: ''Tränen sind denn nicht genug, mein Junge,
Tränen sind denn nicht genug.''

Jajem ssoref is m'n korew

E goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtomp

Wer niks is, hot kawsones