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The Great Dictator speaks

In this world there is room for everyone and the 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.

Charlie Chaplin, as Hinkel in The Great Dictator

While the Earth might not be rich enough to provide for us all anymore, there are just too many of us, the speech is good.

Via Intrepid Flame [intrepidflame.blogspot.com] quoted from Renegade Eye [advant.blogspot.com].