Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes Men who despise you and 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 as cattle, 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
We all want to help one another human beings are like that We don't want to hate and despise one another In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone
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 Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost