Top 51 Goring Quotes
#1. Before the war, the domain of culture seemed to offer a haven from the increasingly hateful world of politics. Now, when I hear the word culture, I pull out the quote commonly attributed to Hermann Goring: When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
Aleksandar Hemon
#2. Maybe Goring will be the new Fuhrer when that Bormann dies. He seems sort of different from the others. The only way that Bormann got it in the first place was to weasel in when Hitler realized how fast he was going.
Philip K. Dick
#3. Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. lord caversham. Hum! Which is Goring? Beautiful idiot, or the other thing? mabel chiltern.
Oscar Wilde
#4. Call me Meier, Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .
Philip Jose Farmer
#5. Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.
Adam Nevill
#6. Nobody liked Goring except Hitler and Goring.
Bodie Thoene
#7. LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.
Oscar Wilde
#8. LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.
Oscar Wilde
#9. All it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a ...
Hermann Goring
#10. I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.
Hermann Goring
#11. 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
#12. In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.
Hermann Goring
#13. Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goring
#15. Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.
Hermann Goring
#16. The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!
Hermann Goring
#17. 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
#18. My Luftwaffe is invincible ... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?
Hermann Goring
#19. I am always saying what I shouldn't say; in fact, I usually say what I
really think
a great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be
misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
#20. After a certain period of time, when I had acquired more insight into the Fuehrer's personality, I gave him my hand and said: "I unite my fate with yours for better or for worse: I dedicate myself to you in good times and in bad, even unto death." I really meant it-and still do.
Hermann Goring
#21. I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.
Hermann Goring
#23. 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
#24. The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
Hermann Goring
#25. I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.
Hermann Goring
#26. If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
Hermann Goring
#27. God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.
Hermann Goring
#28. We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
Hermann Goring
#29. Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.
Hermann Goring
#30. I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.
Hermann Goring
#33. The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!
Hermann Goring
#34. The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.
Hermann Goring
#35. Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.
Hermann Goring
#36. I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.
Hermann Goring
#37. I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.
Hermann Goring
#38. What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?
Hermann Goring
#39. In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action ... I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God.
Hermann Goring
#40. After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
Hermann Goring
#41. 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
#42. It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.
Hermann Goring
#43. In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.
Hermann Goring
#44. Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Hermann Goring
#45. I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.
Hermann Goring
#46. If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
Hermann Goring
#47. There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.
Hermann Goring
#48. I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this ... I have no moral obligation to submit to the justice of my enemies. I have therefore chosen the manner of death of the great Hannibal.
Hermann Goring
#49. 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
#50. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders ... tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
Hermann Goring
#51. No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.
Hermann Goring
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