Explore Quotes by Joseph Goebbels

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.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

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

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

Our starting point is not the individual:_x000D_We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.

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

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

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.

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Leben verstehen wir Deutschen vielleicht nicht, aber sterben, das können wir fabelhaft!_x000D__x000D_(We, the germans, might not be able to live, but to die, that we marvellously)

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

Man only honors what he conquers or defends.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

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

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

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.