The soldier's humanity
Soldiers ! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and 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 a love of humanity in your hearts !
- Source : Charlie Chaplin, final speech, film "The Great Dictator" (excerpt)
- Publication date : 1940
- Topics : Love , Ethics , War , Nonviolence , Humanization
