Our starting point is not the individual: 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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSMan only honors what he conquers or defends.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.
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Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
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You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide
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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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If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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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.
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Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.
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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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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.
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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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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
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We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals.
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This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
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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.
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Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
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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.
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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.
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Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.
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If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
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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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The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.
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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.
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If we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses.
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The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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