Best 78 quotes of Joseph Goebbels on MyQuotes

A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically - it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!

A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

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.

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.

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

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.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.

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.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

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

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

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.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

If 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.

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

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

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

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

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.

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today

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

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we take the blows from the English and the Americans. [Germans in the bombed cities] are gradually beginning to lose their courage. Hell like that is hard to bear for any length of time, especially since the inhabitants along the Rhine and Ruhr see no prospect of improvement.

One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

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.

Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

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.

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.