The Great Dictator tells the story of a barber who is mistakenly mistaken for dictator Adenoid Hynkel.
1- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
2- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
3- “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!” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
4- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
5- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
6- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
7- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
8- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
9- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
10- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
11- “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.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
12- “Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.” -Adenoid Hynkel, ‘The Great Dictator’.
13- “In the future, each man will serve the interest of the State with absolute obedience.” -Garbitsch, ‘The Great Dictator’
14- “Victory shall come to the worthy.” –Garbitsch, ‘The Great Dictator’
15- “Today, democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with such ideas.” -Garbitsch, ‘The Great Dictator’
16- “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.” –Garbitsch, ‘The Great Dictator’
17- “We’ve just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisinous gas. It will kill everybody.” –Herring, ‘The Great Dictator’
18- “Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” -Hannah , ‘The Great Dictator’
19- “- Garbitsch: We’ve had to make a few arrests.
– Hynkel – Dictator of Tomania: A few? How many?
– Garbitsch: Nothing astronomical. Five or ten thousand… a day.” –‘The Great Dictator’
20- “- Garbitsch: Brunettes are trouble makers. They’re worse than the Jews.
– Hynkel – Dictator of Tomania: Then wipe them out.
– Garbitsch: Start small. Not so fast. We get rid of the Jews first, then concentrate on the brunettes.” –‘The Great Dictator’
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