Joseph Goebbels Quotes

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

Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and free internationally. The bourgeoisie and Marxism are responsible for failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom. No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves, they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state.

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

You and I, we are fighting each other but we are not really enemies. By doing so we are dividing our strength, and we shall never reach our goal. Maybe the final extremity will bring us together. Maybe.

Thus, we see from Lenin and his industrial reform that no salvation can come to the German people from this side, because communism, Marxism, as an ally of the Jewish stock market swindlers, never wants real freedom. It needs compliant slaves for its system of exploitation, but no free people for its plans for world domination. Real freedom means its end.

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

The worker in a capitalist state — and that is his deepest misfortune — is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker.

Wysoko na niebie biała chmura formuje się w kształt swastyki (...)Znak opatrzności!?
(Droben am Himmel formt sich eine weiße Wolke zum Hakenkreuz. Ein Zeichen des Schicksals?)

This is the secret of propaganda:
He, who is the target of propaganda,
should be completely immersed in the ideas of propaganda,
without him ever noticing, that he is being immersed.

Das ist das Geheimnis der Propaganda:
Den, den die Propaganda fassen will,
ganz mit den Ideen der Propaganda zu durchtränken,
ohne dass er überhaupt merkt, dass er durchtränkt wird.

The system of liberal capitalist democracy is already so rotten inside that there is nothing left to mend or reform. It must be fundamentally destroyed, shattered spiritually and in terms of power politics, so that a young, new generation can build a future on the ruins of the past.

Volk ohne Religion, das ist so wie Mensch ohne Atem.

Rußland ... einst im Geiste seines größten Denkers, im Geiste Dostojewskis erwachen wird.

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.

Russia [...] will awaken in the spirit of its greatest thinker, in the spirit of Dostoevsky.

We will turn National Socialism into a party of class struggle,…