Top 41 Goering Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Goering

#1. Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Richard Overy

#2. Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

Richard Overy

#3. Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Richard Overy

#4. I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.

Adolf Hitler

#5. According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Adolf Galland

#6. Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Richard Overy

#7. Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.

Bernie Brillstein

#8. No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

Hermann Goring

#9. Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Bob Gunton

#10. Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

Richard Overy

#11. Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

Richard Overy

#12. When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

Edward Abbey

#13. I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

Moby

#14. My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

Hermann Goring

#15. People ask to much because they live in their own reality. not what reality really is.

Rob Lyon

#16. Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right.

Herman Goering

#17. One evening you may learn about enlightenment, koans, meditation and personal power.

Frederick Lenz

#18. If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Mo Rocca

#19. Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

Adolf Hitler

#20. The last great Englishman is low.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#21. I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to ... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.

Hermann Goring

#22. We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s.

Howard Rheingold

#23. I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

Minor White

#24. It was like I was in love with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love before first sight.

Kami Garcia

#25. If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

Hermann Goring

#26. We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

Hermann Goring

#27. In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

Hermann Goring

#28. Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Hermann Goring

#29. Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

Hermann Goring

#30. The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Hermann Goring

#31. Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis
German National Socialism.

Hermann Goring

#32. We have no butter ... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

Hermann Goring

#33. Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the places time ran over

Adam Haslett

#34. I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

Hermann Goring