The Great Dictator (1940)

Reginald Gardiner: Schultz

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Quotes 

• Schultz : Strange, and I always thought of you as an Aryan.

  A Jewish barber : I'm a vegetarian

• Schultz : Can you fly a plane?

  A Jewish Barber : I can try...

• Schultz : How's the gas?

  A Jewish barber : Terrible, it kept me awake all night.

  Schultz : No, no, no! The gasoline in the tank.

• Schultz : Heil Hynk... Oh what am I saying?

• Schultz : You must speak.

  A Jewish Barber : I can't.

  Schultz : You must. It's our only hope.

  A Jewish Barber : Hope...

• 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.

• Schultz : [plane is upside down]  We're upside down!

  A Jewish Barber : I know it.

  Schultz : Give me that stick!

  A Jewish Barber : Impossible.

  Schultz : [engine dies]  Oh, there it goes. We're out of gas. Well, this is it then.

  [pulls out cigarette pack] 

  Schultz : Cigarette?

  A Jewish Barber : Not now.

  Schultz : Then I shant need this anymore.

  [tosses cigarette pack] 

• 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] 

• 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!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.