Joseph Goebbels Quotes

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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.

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.

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

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.

Joseph Goebbels
The Führer once again expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.

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

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She has confessed her parentage to me. Since then, the first enchantment ruined.

Joseph Goebbels
If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable. Our indestructible will to life, and the driving force of the Führer's personality guarantee this.

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

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

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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.

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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Joseph Goebbels
Subhumans exist in every people as a leavening agent

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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.

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

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If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.

Joseph Goebbels
... it would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal slavery under capitalism.

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

Joseph Goebbels
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.

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