Goering's Quotes

#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. 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

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

Hermann Goring

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

Hermann Goring

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

Hermann Goring

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

Edward Abbey

#7. 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

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

Richard Overy

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

Adolf Galland

#10. 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

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

Hermann Goring

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

Richard Overy

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

Adolf Hitler

#14. The easiest and cheapest trick for any leader is to take his country to war on false pretenses.

John Le Carre

#15. 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

#16. 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.

Joseph Goebbels

#17. Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.

Richard Crashaw

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

Hermann Goring

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

Hermann Goring

#20. In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

Hermann Goring

#21. It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

Hermann Goring

#22. People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Henry Markram

#23. The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

Hermann Goring

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

Richard Overy

#25. Pleasure, of course, is a slippery word ... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Billy Collins

#26. I've been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me that even if you get past the casting director's door you've still got to do your homework: you've still got to work hard.

Rafe Spall

#27. 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

#28. I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

Hermann Goring

#29. 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

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

Richard Overy

#31. To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

Paulo Freire

#32. Life is first boredom, then fear.
whether or not we use it, it goes,
and leaves what something hidden from us chose,
and age, and then the only end of age.

Philip Larkin

#33. 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

#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

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

Hermann Goring

#36. 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

#37. 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