Top 94 Joseph Goebbels Quotes
#1. Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.
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#2. Our starting point is not the individual:
We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked ... Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.
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#3. I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven't found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I'm afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There's nothing to get up for.
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#4. The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
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#5. The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
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#6. The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
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#7. Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.
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#8. O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.
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#10. It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.
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#11. Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good ... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
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#12. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
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#13. If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
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#14. Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
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#15. To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
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#16. Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.
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#17. To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
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#18. The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.
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#19. The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.
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#20. A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
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#21. We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
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#22. If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..
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#23. The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.
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#24. The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.
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#25. As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
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#26. Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.
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#27. [Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
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#28. A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
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#29. A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically - it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!
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#30. Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
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#31. Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
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#32. Think of the press as a great keyboard
on which the government can play.
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#33. Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
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#34. Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.
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#35. If you tell the same lie enough times, people will believe it; and the bigger the lie, the better.
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#36. I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.
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#37. The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.
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#38. Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.
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#39. I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
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#40. During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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#41. Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.
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#42. In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!
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#43. Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .
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#44. Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.
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#45. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
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#46. Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
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#47. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
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#48. Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards ... the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill ... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
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#49. I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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#50. This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
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#52. THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN
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#53. A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.
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#54. When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my revolver.
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#55. There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
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#56. A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.
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#57. The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
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#59. A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.
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#60. We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
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#63. If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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#64. If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses
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#65. At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
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#66. The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
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#67. It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
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#68. It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
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#69. The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
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#70. When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
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#71. If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.
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#72. Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place ...
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#74. The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.
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#75. We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.
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#76. The Jew is contrary to our being ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
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#78. Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
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#79. The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.
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#80. Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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#82. We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.
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#83. To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.
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#84. The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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#85. The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead ... The past lies in flames.
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#86. Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
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#87. To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth
demands.
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#88. Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a
chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.
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#89. It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.
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#90. Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated
are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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#91. Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
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#92. That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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#93. When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.
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#94. A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.
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