The Great Dictator Quotes

The Great Dictator is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . The Great Dictator ended in 1970.

It features Charlie Chaplin as producer, Charlie Chaplin in charge of musical score, and Karl Struss as head of cinematography.

The Great Dictator is recorded in English language and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Great Dictator is 124 minutes long. The Great Dictator is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Maurice Moscovich as Mr. Jaeckel, Paulette Goddard as Hannah, Reginald Gardiner as Schultz, Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel, Henry Daniell as Garbitsch, and Grace Hayle as Madame Napaloni.

The Great Dictator Quotes

Reginald Gardiner as Schultz

• (Reginald Gardiner) "You must speak."
• (A Jewish Barber) "I can't."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "You must. It's our only hope."
• (A Jewish Barber) "Hope --"

• (Reginald Gardiner) "Remember my words. Your cause is doomed to failure because its built on the stupid, ruthless persecution of innocent people. Your policy is worst than a crime. It's a tragic blunder."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Traitor. Traitor. You're nothing but a doubley-eyed Democrat."

• (Reginald Gardiner) "Can you fly a plane?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "I can certainly try --"

• (Reginald Gardiner) "Heil Hynk -- Oh what am I saying?"

• (Reginald Gardiner) "There it is. The village of Pretzelberg."
• (A Jewish Barber) "Pretzelberg?"
• (Reginald Gardiner) "If we can pass through there, we're safe across the Osterlich border."

• (Reginald Gardiner) "In ancient times the Aryan tribe of Langobardians made human sacrifice to the god Thor. At feast, by lottery, the victim was chosen. Tonight, at this feast, one of you will be chosen."

• (Reginald Gardiner) "In future you will not be molested again. If you or your friends ever need help --"
• (Reginald Gardiner) "Who did that?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "One of my friends."

• (Reginald Gardiner) "We're upside down."
• (A Jewish Barber) "I know it."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "Give me that stick."
• (A Jewish Barber) "Impossible."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "Oh, there it goes. We're out of gas. Well, this is it then."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "Cigarette?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "Not now."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "Then I shant need this anymore."

• (Reginald Gardiner) "Oh, there it goes. We're out of gas. Well, I suppose this is the end. Cigarette?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "Not now."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "Then, I shan't need this anymore. What month is it? April. Spring. In Tomainia. Hilda will be in the garden now, tilling the daffodils. How she loves daffodils. She could never cut them for fear of hurting them. It was like taking a life, to cut a daffodil. Sweet, gentle Hilda."

• (Reginald Gardiner) "Strange, and I always thought of you as an Aryan."
• (A Jewish barber) "I'm a vegetarian"

• (Reginald Gardiner) "How's the gas?"
• (A Jewish barber) "Terrible, it kept me awake all night."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "No, no, no. The gasoline in the tank."

Charlie Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Tighten de belten."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Strange, these strike leaders, they're all brunettes. Not a blonde amongst them."
• (Henry Daniell) "Brunettes are trouble makers. They're worse than the Jews."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Then wipe them out."
• (Henry Daniell) "Start small. Not so fast. We get rid of the Jews first, then concentrate on the brunettes."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "We shall never have peace 'til we have a pure Aryan race. How wonderful. Tomainia, a nation of blue-eyed blondes."
• (Henry Daniell) "Why not a blonde Europe, a blonde Asia, and blonde America."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "A blonde world."
• (Henry Daniell) "And a brunette dictator."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Dictator of the world."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Madame, your dancing was superb. Excellent. Very good. Good."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "He's coming. He's coming. Quick. Get me a flower. A flower."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "How was it?"
• (Henry Daniell) "The speech?"
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Yes."
• (Henry Daniell) "Very good. I thought your reference to the Jews might have been more violent."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "What?"
• (Henry Daniell) "We've got to rouse the people's anger. At this time, violence against the Jews might take the public's mind off it's stomach."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Nothing works. Not a decent pen. Not even a sharp pencil. I'm surrounded by nothing but incompetent, stupid, sterile stenographers."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "The Juden."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "The Juden. Un de striff de sauerkraut with a Juden."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Declare war on Napaloni."
• (Henry Daniell) "Napaloni?"
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Yes, Napaloni."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Listen, you blockhead. Mobilise every division of the army and the air force. Proceed to Bacteria and attack at once."
• (Henry Daniell) "But war will be the end of us."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Do as I tell you."
• (Henry Daniell) "Madness."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Shut up."
• (Henry Daniell) "Very well. Would you sign this?"
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Yes, I'll -- what is it?"
• (Henry Daniell) "The declaration of war."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Then I'll sign it. A pen. Und stratz mit ze uldensackt. I'll sign it. Und stratz mit sei öldensackt, il der, der flutens -- , der -- , der -- , und strippensackt. A pen. I'll sign it. Napaloni, de grosse peanut, de cheesy ravioli. There."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Ah, Herring. Poop-shin, Herring. Bismark, Herring."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Schultz, why have you forsaken me?"

• (Field Marshal Herring) "A parachute. The most compact in the world. Worn like a hat. It will open in 25 feet. Demonstrate, professor."
• (Compact Parachute Inventor) "Heil Hynkel."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Herring, why do you waste my time like this?"

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Phooey."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Garbitsch, what's the meaning of this? These appropriations? Twenty-five million for prison camps when we need every penny for the manufacturing of ammunition's?"
• (Henry Daniell) "We've had to make a few arrests."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "A few? How many?"
• (Henry Daniell) "Nothing astronomical. Five or ten thousand."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Oh."
• (Henry Daniell) "A day."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "A day?"
• (Henry Daniell) "Just a few dissenters, that's all."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Ah, de Aryan. Und de Aryan maiden. Ah, de Aryan maiden. Ah, the delicatessen bitte schön."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "You see, when I get shaved, I'm very nervous. I like something to look at. So I'm putting in glass walls and ceiling -- so that when my head is turned this way, I shall have a view of the mountains. And when it's tipped this way, I shall have a view through the glass ceiling."
• (Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria) "What's above-a the ceiling?"
• (Charlie Chaplin) "The ballroom."

• (Charlie Chaplin) "Shultz, you need a vacation. Fresh air. A little outdoor exercise. I shall send you to a Concentration Camp."

Henry Daniell as Garbitsch

• (Henry Daniell) "We might go a little further with the Jews. Burn down some of their houses. A spectacular assault on the ghetto, now, might prove diverting."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "We must do something more dramatic. Now is the time to invade Osterlich."

• (Henry Daniell) "Yes. Dictator of the world. We'll start with the invasion of Osterlich. After that, we won't have to fight, we can bluff. Nation after nation will capitulate. Within two years the world will be under your thumb."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Leave me. I want to be alone."

• (Henry Daniell) ""Corona veniat electis." Victory shall come to the worthy. Today, democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with such ideas. They stand in the way of action. Therefore, we frankly abolish them. In the future, each man will serve the interest of the State with absolute obedience. Let him who refuses beware. The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them. Henceforth this nation is annexed to the Tomanian Empire, and the people of this nation will obey the laws bestowed upon us by our great leader, the Dictator of Tomainia, the conqueror of Osterlich, the future Emperor of the World."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "You speak."
• (A Jewish Barber) "I can't."
• (Reginald Gardiner) "You must. It's our only hope."

• (Henry Daniell) "It's our destiny. We'll kill off the Jews. Wipe out the brunettes. Then, will come forth our dream of pure Aryan race."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Beautiful blonde Aryans."
• (Henry Daniell) "They will love you. They will adore you. They will worship you as a god."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Oh. No-no. You mustn't say it. You make me afraid of myself."

• (Henry Daniell) "This man, Napaloni, is aggressive, domineering. Before we make our demands, we must put him in his place."
• (Charlie Chaplin) "Precisely. But, how?"
• (Henry Daniell) "By means of applied psychology. In other words, by making him feel inferior. This can be done in many subtle ways."
• (Henry Daniell) "For instance, at this interview, I have so arranged that he will always be looking up at you. You, looking down at him. At all times this position will be inferior."

Paulette Goddard as Hannah

• (Paulette Goddard) "Do you believe in God?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "Well --"
• (Paulette Goddard) "I do. But, if there wasn't one, would you live any different? I wouldn't."

• (Paulette Goddard) "Life could be wonderful if people'd leave you alone."

• (Paulette Goddard) "Look at that star. Isn't it beautiful. One thing, Hynkel, with all his power, can never touch that."

• (Paulette Goddard) "Do you ever daydream? I do. That's the only time I'm really happy. Dreaming."

• (Paulette Goddard) "It's all right now. They've gone. Thanks, mister. Ah, that did me a lot of good. You sure got nerve the way you fought back. That's what we should all do. Fight back. We can't fight alone; but, we can lick 'em together. We didn't do so bad, did we?"

• (Paulette Goddard) "Gee. Ain't I cute."

• (Paulette Goddard) "Do you know we're very much alike?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "Are we?"
• (Paulette Goddard) "Yeah. We're both absentminded."
• (A Jewish Barber) "Do you think so?"
• (Paulette Goddard) "Yes. I like absentminded people. Do you know the story about the man who put his watch in boiling water and held the egg in his hand?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "No."
• (A Jewish Barber) "That's great."

• (Paulette Goddard) "Sometimes I get so carried away, I don't know what I'm doing. Aren't you like that?"

• (Paulette Goddard) "Never mind. We can start again. We can go to Osterlich. That's still a free country. Mr. Jaeckel says it's beautiful there. Wonderful green fields and they grow apples and grapes. Mr. Jaeckel's brother's got a vineyard in Osterlich. And when Mr. Jaeckel goes there, he said he'd take me with him. Now we can all go together."

• (Paulette Goddard) "I wish I had a business like this. There's no future in housework."

Maurice Moscovich as Mr. Jaeckel

• (Maurice Moscovich) "How's business?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "Very slow. Very slow."
• (Maurice Moscovich) "The trouble is the men are all in Concentration Camps. You should go in for fixing up the women. Nice money in the beauty parlor business. Do you know anything about it? Heh?"
• (A Jewish Barber) "Me? No."
• (Maurice Moscovich) "Oh, you could learn. You could practice on Hannah."
• (A Jewish Barber) "Yeah."

• (Maurice Moscovich) "Hannah, get up in that chair. We are going to make you look beautiful."
• (Paulette Goddard) "Beautiful? What for?"
• (Maurice Moscovich) "He's going to practice on you for a beauty parlor."
• (Paulette Goddard) "You're not going to put mud on my face are ya?"
• (Maurice Moscovich) "Ah, we're going to take some off."

• (Maurice Moscovich) "Here, you men, stay right here. We've got to make a stand. We might as well die, as to go on living like this."

• (Maurice Moscovich) "Why worry? With the taxes, the government will soon take it away from him."

• (A Jewish Barber) "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; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We 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 good 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 airplane 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, liberty will never perish. Soldiers. Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, 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 like cattle, use you 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; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers. Don't fight for slavery. Fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men. In you. You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us 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 youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie. They do not fulfill that 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. To 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. Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah. 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 kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah. 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. The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up."
• (Maurice Moscovich) "Hannah, did you hear that?"
• (Paulette Goddard) "Listen --"

Grace Hayle as Madame Napaloni

• (Grace Hayle) "Papa, why can't-a we get out here?"
• (Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria) "There is-a no carpet."
• (Grace Hayle) "Who cares about a carpet?"
• (Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria) "Il Digaditchi, me, a-Napaloni, I never get out without a carpet."

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