Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Goebbels - Page 2

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Man only honors what he conquers or defends.

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.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

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.

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.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. 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.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.

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.

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.

Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

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.

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.

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.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

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.

Leben verstehen wir Deutschen vielleicht nicht, aber sterben, das können wir fabelhaft! (We, the germans, might not be able to live, but to die, that we marvellously)

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

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.

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.

One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we take the blows from the English and the Americans. [Germans in the bombed cities] are gradually beginning to lose their courage. Hell like that is hard to bear for any length of time, especially since the inhabitants along the Rhine and Ruhr see no prospect of improvement.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

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.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

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.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.

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