Commander Shutz Quotes in The Great Dictator (1940)

Commander Shutz: Strange, and I always thought of you as an Aryan.

A Jewish barber: I'm a vegetarian

Commander Shutz: Can you fly a plane?

A Jewish Barber: I can certainly try...

Commander Shutz: Heil Hynk... Oh what am I saying?

Commander Shutz: How's the gas?

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

Commander Shutz: You must speak.

A Jewish Barber: I can't.

Commander Shutz: 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 Tomania, the conqueror of Osterlich, the future Emperor of the World!

Commander Shutz: You speak.

A Jewish Barber: I can't.

Commander Shutz: You must. It's our only hope.

Commander Shutz: [plane is upside down] We're upside down!

A Jewish Barber: I know it.

Commander Shutz: Give me that stick!

A Jewish Barber: Impossible.

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

[pulls out cigarette pack]

Commander Shutz: Cigarette?

A Jewish Barber: Not now.

Commander Shutz: Then I shant need this anymore.

[tosses cigarette pack]