Joseph Goebbels Quotes

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I stood in front of your grave; in radiating sunshine there was a still, green mound. And it was preaching about mortality. My answer was: resurrection.

Joseph Goebbels
You challenged your fate. To surmount or to die! It was not yet time. Therefore you became a victim. Your answer was: Death!

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

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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.

Joseph Goebbels
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

Joseph Goebbels
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.

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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.

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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Joseph Goebbels
I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

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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.

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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.

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The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
I grew stronger inside of me and I strive for a clearer knowledge and stronger faith.

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

Joseph Goebbels
Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.

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A judgment is being visited upon the Jews that, while barbaric, is fully deserved by them. The prophecy which the Führer made about them for having brought on a new world war is beginning to come true in a most terrible manner. One must not be sentimental in these matters. If we did not fight the Jews, they would destroy us. It's a life-and-death struggle between the Aryan race and the Jewish bacillus.

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

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The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx.
Christ: the principle of love.
Marx: the principle of hate.

Joseph Goebbels
Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.... It poisons our own values and subjects us to the service of low and base instincts.

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Both of us were about to capitulate facing spiritual breakdown. Then we helped each other to stand tall and did not falter. My answer was: Resistance!

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

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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.

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

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At night I sit in my chamber and read the Bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

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I dedicate this book to the memory of my friend Richard Flisges, who died as a brave soldier of work in a mine at Schliersee on the 19th of July 1923.

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

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