Joseph Goebbels Quotes

1897–1945 Germany

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany. He was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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Also known as: Goebbels, Goebbels, Joseph, Josef Goebbels, Paul Joseph Goebbels

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He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

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

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

In a manner of speaking, it provides the background music.

Der Kongress zur Nürnberg (1934)

And in the last analysis better to go down with Bolshevism than live in eternal capitalist servitude.

Propaganda as such is neither good nor evil. Its moral value is determined by the goals it seeks.

Der Kongress zur Nürnberg (1934)

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

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

He who defends the Jew harms his own people.

He who thinks as a German must despise the Jew. The one determines the other.

Bolshevism and National Socialism are embodied in two people who lead a purposeful minority in the will to the future: Lenin and Hitler.

Lenin or Hitler", Joseph Goebbels’s speech (1926)

Man only honors what he conquers or defends.

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

The Devil’s Disciples: Hitler’s Inner Circle by Anthony Read (2004)

We are not a charitable institution but a Party of revolutionary socialists.

Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight.

We demand a strict social justice, work and livelihood for the broad masses, residences and bread and thus life joy for the German worker.

Say what you will: politics spoils a man’s character. Or rather: politics show how basically rotten man’s character is.

The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy.

England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist people's state.

Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

The money pigs of capitalist democracy… Money has made slaves of us… Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joseph Goebbels (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.