Henry Daniell
The Great Dictator Movie Quotes
[last lines]
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!
Mr. Jaeckel
Hannah, did you hear that?
Hannah
Listen...
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Schultz
Strange, and I always thought of you as an Aryan.
A Jewish barber
I'm a vegetarian
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Schultz
Can you fly a plane?
A Jewish Barber
I can try...
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Adenoid Hynkel
Strange, these strike leaders, they're all brunettes. Not a blonde amongst them.
Garbitsch
Brunettes are trouble makers. They're worse than the Jews.
Adenoid Hynkel
Then wipe them out.
Garbitsch
Start small. Not so fast. We get rid of the Jews first, then concentrate on the brunettes.
Adenoid Hynkel
We shall never have peace 'til we have a pure Aryan race. How wonderful. Tomainia, a nation of blue-eyed blondes.
Garbitsch
Why not a blonde Europe, a blonde Asia, and blonde America.
Adenoid Hynkel
A blonde world.
Garbitsch
And a brunette dictator.
Adenoid Hynkel
Dictator of the world!
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[first lines]
Title Cards
Note, any resemblance between Hynkle the Dictator and the Jewish Barber is purely co-incidental.
Title Cards
This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.
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Schultz
How's the gas?
A Jewish barber
Terrible, it kept me awake all night.
Schultz
No, no, no! The gasoline in the tank.
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Schultz
Heil Hynk... Oh what am I saying?
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Field Marshal Herring
We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most *marvelous* poisonous gas! It will kill everybody!
Adenoid Hynkel
All right, later, later, later.
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Adenoid Hynkel
Declare war on Napaloni.
Garbitsch
Napaloni?
Adenoid Hynkel
Yes, Napaloni!
[to Field Marshal Herring]
Adenoid Hynkel
Listen, you blockhead. Mobilise every division of the army and the air force. Proceed to Bacteria and attack at once.
Garbitsch
But war will be the end of us.
Adenoid Hynkel
Do as I tell you.
Garbitsch
Madness.
Adenoid Hynkel
Shut up!
Garbitsch
Very well. Would you sign this?
Adenoid Hynkel
Yes, I'll... what is it?
Garbitsch
The declaration of war.
Adenoid Hynkel
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!
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Schultz
You must speak.
A Jewish Barber
I can't.
Schultz
You must. It's our only hope.
A Jewish Barber
Hope...
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Adenoid Hynkel
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?
Garbitsch
We've had to make a few arrests.
Adenoid Hynkel
A few? How many?
Garbitsch
Nothing astronomical. Five or ten thousand.
Adenoid Hynkel
Oh.
Garbitsch
A day.
Adenoid Hynkel
A day?
Garbitsch
Just a few dissenters, that's all.
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Hannah
Do you believe in God?
A Jewish Barber
Well...
Hannah
I do! But, if there wasn't one, would you live any different? I wouldn't.
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Garbitsch
"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!
Schultz
You speak.
A Jewish Barber
I can't.
Schultz
You must. It's our only hope.
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A Jewish Barber
We seem to be defying the laws of gravity.
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Adenoid Hynkel
Nothing works! Not a decent pen. Not even a sharp pencil! I'm surrounded by nothing but incompetent, stupid, sterile stenographers!
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Field Marshal Herring
Banana!
Adenoid Hynkel
Banana? Ein been poopin' era eina cheese-n-crackers withouten!
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Garbitsch
This man, Napaloni, is aggressive, domineering. Before we make our demands, we must put him in his place.
Adenoid Hynkel
Precisely! But, how?
Garbitsch
By means of applied psychology. In other words, by making him feel inferior. This can be done in many subtle ways.
[looking down at Hynkel]
Garbitsch
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.
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Adenoid Hynkel
How was it?
Garbitsch
The speech?
Adenoid Hynkel
Yes.
Garbitsch
Very good. I thought your reference to the Jews might have been more violent.
Adenoid Hynkel
What?
Garbitsch
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.
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A Jewish Barber
I know it.
Schultz
Give me that stick!
A Jewish Barber
Impossible.
[pulls out cigarette pack]
Schultz
Cigarette?
A Jewish Barber
Not now.
Schultz
Then I shant need this anymore.
[tosses cigarette pack]
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International press reporter
The Phooey has just referred to the Jewish people.
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Hannah
Look at that star. Isn't it beautiful. One thing, Hynkel, with all his power, can never touch that.
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Hannah
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?
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Adenoid Hynkel
Schultz, why have you forsaken me?
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Adenoid Hynkel
[Excusing himself from Madame Napaloni's company on the dance floor upon being summoned by Garbitsch]
Madame, your dancing was superb. Excellent. Very good. Good.
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Adenoid Hynkel
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?
Adenoid Hynkel
The ballroom.
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Hannah
[after the Jewish Barber gets in a scuffle with a storm trooper]
Oh, I'm sorry mister. I didn't mean to hit you. You were wonderful. I enjoyed that. But, don't stand there. You better beat it!
A Jewish Barber
No, I'll call a policeman.
Hannah
No, no! Don't do that!
A Jewish Barber
Why not?
Hannah
Are you crazy?
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Garbitsch
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.
Adenoid Hynkel
We must do something more dramatic. Now is the time to invade Osterlich.
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Garbitsch
It's our destiny! We'll kill off the Jews. Wipe out the brunettes. Then, will come forth our dream of pure Aryan race!
Adenoid Hynkel
Beautiful blonde Aryans.
Garbitsch
They will love you. They will adore you. They will worship you as a god!
Adenoid Hynkel
Oh! No-no! You mustn't say it! You make me afraid of myself.
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Schultz
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!
Adenoid Hynkel
Traitor! Traitor! You're nothing but a doubley-eyed Democrat!
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Madame Napaloni
[arriving at the Tomainia Train Station]
Papa, why can't-a we get out here?
Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria
There is-a no carpet.
Madame Napaloni
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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Adenoid Hynkel
He's coming! He's coming! Quick! Get me a flower! A flower!
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Schultz
There it is! The village of Pretzelberg.
A Jewish Barber
Pretzelberg?
Schultz
If we can pass through there, we're safe across the Osterlich border.
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Schultz
[Speaking to the barber, loudly, so that the storm troopers can hear]
In future you will not be molested again. If you or your friends ever need help...
[From a rooftop, Hannah throws a large piece of masonry on to the head of one of the storm troopers]
Schultz
Who did that?
A Jewish Barber
[Smiling sheepishly]
One of my friends.
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[repeated line]
People
Heil Hynkel!
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Adenoid Hynkel
Shultz, you need a vacation. Fresh air. A little outdoor exercise. I shall send you to a Concentration Camp.
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Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria
What are you do? You salami!
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Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria
Hello, Hynki! Be good! Wie geht's! Ha-ha-ha! How are you feel? Wait-a minute. Wait-a. Ah, my brother dictator! You are a nice little man, Hynki. I'm so glad to see you again!
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Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria
Ah, this is a lovely place! I been-a fine. I just had-a nice-a cold shower. And that bath tub - as soon as you get the plumbing fixed, it'll be in-a good-a shape.
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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!
[Jumps out the window]
Adenoid Hynkel
[Watches the inventor fall, then turns to Herring]
Herring, why do you waste my time like this?
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Mr. Jaeckel
If things get worse, you can still go to Osterlich. That's still a free country. Sooner or later, we'll have to go.
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Mr. Jaeckel
Why worry? With the taxes, the government will soon take it away from him.
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Adenoid Hynkel
The Juden.
[growls]
Adenoid Hynkel
The Juden! Un de striff de sauerkraut with a Juden!
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Adenoid Hynkel
Ah, de Aryan. Und de Aryan maiden. Ah, de Aryan maiden! Ah, the delicatessen bitte schön.
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Secret Agent B-76
The men are planning a strike at the arms factory.
Adenoid Hynkel
Who's the leader?
Secret Agent B-76
There were five of them.
Adenoid Hynkel
Have them shot.
Secret Agent B-76
They were, your Excellency.
Adenoid Hynkel
Oh. Hum. How many do you say were going on strike?
Secret Agent B-76
The whole factory: 3,000 of them.
Adenoid Hynkel
Have them all shot! I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
Garbitsch
But, your Excellency, these men are skilled craftsmen. Why not let them work until they can train others and then shoot them.
Adenoid Hynkel
We cannot afford to be lenient.
Garbitsch
The whole rhythm of production will be affected if we shoot them now.
Adenoid Hynkel
Rhythm of production? All right, have your rhythms.
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Garbitsch
Just a few dissenters, that's all.
Adenoid Hynkel
What do they dissent about?
Garbitsch
The working hours, the cut in wages, chiefly the synthetic food, the quality of the sawdust in the bread.
Adenoid Hynkel
What more do they want? The finest lumber our mills can supply.
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Mr. Mann
[humming while approaching]
Good morning, Mr. Jaeckel.
Mr. Jaeckel
What's good about it?
Mr. Mann
Well, conditions could be worse.
Mr. Jaeckel
You think they could be worse, you have a great imagination.
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Schultz
Oh, there it goes. We're out of gas. Well, I suppose this is the end. Cigarette?
A Jewish Barber
Not now!
Schultz
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.
[plane crashes]
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Adenoid Hynkel
Tighten de belten!
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Adenoid Hynkel
Ah, Herring. Poop-shin, Herring. Bismark, Herring.
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Mr. Jaeckel
How's business?
A Jewish Barber
Very slow. Very slow.
Mr. Jaeckel
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.
Mr. Jaeckel
Oh, you could learn. You could practice on Hannah.
A Jewish Barber
Yeah!
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Mr. Jaeckel
Hannah, get up in that chair. We are going to make you look beautiful.
Hannah
Beautiful? What for?
Mr. Jaeckel
He's going to practice on you for a beauty parlor.
Hannah
You're not going to put mud on my face are ya?
Mr. Jaeckel
Ah, we're going to take some off!
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Hannah
I wish I had a business like this. There's no future in housework.
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Hannah
Life could be wonderful if people'd leave you alone.
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Hannah
Do you know we're very much alike?
A Jewish Barber
Are we?
Hannah
Yeah, we're both absent-minded.
A Jewish Barber
Do you think so?
Hannah
Yes.
[pause]
Hannah
I like absent-minded people.
[pause]
Hannah
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...
[both laugh]
A Jewish Barber
That's great.
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Garbitsch
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!
Adenoid Hynkel
Leave me. I want to be alone.
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Hannah
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.
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Mr. Jaeckel
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!
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Schultz
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.
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Adenoid Hynkel
We'll give him the works! We'll put on the greatest military show the world has ever known! Convinced of my strength! Napaloni will leave the invasion of Osterlich - to me.
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Heinrich Schtick - Translator
Two million nine hundred and seventy-five thousand eager citizens are massed in the station's Square, awaiting the arrival of Benzino Napaloni. Entering the station is our beloved Phooey, ready to greet his distinguished guest. This historic meeting will cement a friendship that has long existed between our Phooey and the Dictator of Bacteria.
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Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria
Hey! What's all this a mix-uppa?
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Heinrich Schtick - Translator
His Excellency leaves the scene of his triumph and will return to the palace along Hynkel Strasse, The Avenue of Culture, where he will pass Tomainia's modern masterpieces, The 'Venus of Today' and the 'Hynkel of Tomorrow.'
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Adenoid Hynkel
[in the middle of a speech in which he rants in "German"]
Phooey!
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Tomanian Storm Trooper
Tomanian Storm Trooper, Storm Trooper Stealing Fruit, Storm Trooper, Storm Trooper, Storm Trooper Officer: [singing] Arya, Arya, Arya, Arya, Aryan! And Kings go marching by!
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Hannah
[looking in the mirror]
Gee! Ain't I cute.
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Hannah
Do you ever daydream? I do. That's the only time I'm really happy. Dreaming.
[pause]
Hannah
Sometimes I get so carried away I don't know what I'm doing. Aren't you like that?
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