We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSIf the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.
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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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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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I’m so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There’s no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven’t found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I’m afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There’s nothing to get up for.
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The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.
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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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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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Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
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When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
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I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
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If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
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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.
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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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