Joseph Goebbels
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.Collection: Maturity
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.Collection: Dream
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.Collection: Men
We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.Collection: Thank God
He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Mean
The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.Collection: War
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.Collection: People
It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.Collection: Arses
To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.Collection: Winning
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.Collection: Hypocrisy
Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.Collection: Animal
The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Mean
Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .Collection: Long
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.Collection: Tired
I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: War
The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.Collection: Brother
The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.Collection: People
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.Collection: Lying
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.Collection: Love
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)Collection: Photography
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Cheater
The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.Collection: Lying
If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.Collection: Honesty
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.Collection: History
Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Morning
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminalsCollection: Criminals
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. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Lying
During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.Collection: War
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.Collection: Sacrifice
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.Collection: Doors
It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.Collection: Intelligent
We have made the Reich by propagandaCollection: Tyrants
Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.Collection: Moving
In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!Collection: Hatred
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.Collection: Character
A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.Collection: Hate
Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.Collection: Heart
The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.Collection: War