Final Speech in The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin acted as 'Adenoid Hynkel' in the movie The Great Dictator, which was released in 1940. In that movie, there was a speech which was shared to me by Anoop Bakhtani from India. The YouTube video for the actual scene in the film can be found here. The script is presented here for the interested readers below:
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's 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 aeroplane 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 Saint Luke it is written, "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 you the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their 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.
Pakistan had links with the shoe thrown at Bush
Now this is damn funny! I came across this on Sami's blog, and I couldn't wait but post it here for those of you who do not happen to visit Sami's blog or if for some reason Sami's blog is also banned by Pakistani government for disclosing this shoe connection to the whole world!
So here goes:
The pair of shoes which was thrown at Mr. Bush in Iraq has links to Pakistan, said a statement from Pentagon. They have the following proofs:
i) The journalist had visited Pakistan earlier this year. There he was inspired by the shoe throwing at former CM Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Sher Afghan Niazi.
ii) He received his training of throwing shoes by a Pakistan based Jihadi organization.
iii) The DNA sample of leather has revealed that the animal whose skin was used for manufacturing the shoe had traces of grass which is grown in North of Pakistan and this skin was collected by a Jihadi organization on Eid-ul-Adha this month.
Hearing this, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani have decided to ban the Jihadi organization and launched a country wide crackdown against all the cobblers in Pakistan!
So much of hula hoop, so much of talk
With so much to do and so less to live is what it often sounds to me. I have been realizing the benefits of moving to wordpress - it's simpler. I was in the PAF-KIET city campus and in the labs, I was working with one of my friends on some project of mine. He showed me BuzzWord - I had looked at it at it's earlier times but now it's been bought by Adobe and my word it's one hell of an application! In the same lab, on the next seat I notice an stranger handling his Wordpress posts in the Wordpress Admin area. I ask him what his blog is about, he tells me it's about 'Afghan Jobs' and I say 'you serious?', 'yes', says he. I asked him how much he has already earned since I didn't see much interest of that guy in afghan jobs than earning off Google Adsense. He told me $ 450 already. I say 'sweeet' and he says 'yar meine apko kaheen dekha hai (man i've seen you somewhere)' and follows 'probably on the internet' and I spread my ugly teeth all over him feeling proud that someone knows me off the web 
At the other side of things, I have my web programming project submission tomorrow and I hope to get a good grade atleast in that subject
Cya laterz!
Upgraded to M.. no! it’s Wordpress!
I was in a kash ma kash trying to decide if I should migrate to wordpress or stick to MT! but hey, as it turns out, MT is still on and alive! I did move to wordpress! and well, I love it too. One thing that was stopping me to migrate was the fear of losing my old URLs that were in the search engines. But wordpress is smart enough to allow me the way I want the URLs to look like - and I mapped them exactly the same way they did in MovableType! Thanks WordPress! 
I've been amazingly slow to post new stuff on my blog even though a lot is going on around. I think I will. I have my final exams from the 23rd of December and I hope to do good with them.
I might come up with a new theme for my blog anytime soon, let's hope (again) I do it sooner than later =)