Joseph Goebbels Quotes

Ich fühle, wie in mir sich wachsend Wort an Wort, Gedanke an Gedanke reiht zum letzten Akt der Schöpfung. Heilige Stunde des Gebärens, Schmerz bist du und Lust und eine Sehnsucht nach Form, Gestalt und Wesen. Ich bin nur Instrument, darauf der alte Gott sein Lied singt. Ich bin nur harrendes Gefäß, in das Natur den neuen Wein mit Lächeln füllt.

Der moderne Mensch ist notwendigerweise ein Gottsucher, vielleicht ein Christusmensch.

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.

Production that is essentially completed, which no longer requires strength, ability, inventiveness, entrepreneurship and brilliance (e.g., the transportation system, trusts, conglomerates) will be brought back to state ownership.

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.

Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

Dostoyevsky is ahead of his time - a few daring steps. You follow him, dizzying, fearful, incredulous; but you follow. He won't let loose, you have to follow. … You simply have to call him unique. He comes from nowhere and belongs nowhere. And yet he is always a Russian.

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

If Germany stays united and marches to the rhythm of its revolutionary socialist outlook, it will be unbeatable. Our indestructible will to life, and the driving force of the Führer’s personality guarantee this.

We make no bones about the fact that the radio belongs to us and to no-one else. And we will place the radio in the service of our ideology and no other ideology will find expression here . . . The radio must subordinate itself to the goals which the Government of the national revolution has set itself.

“Das russische Problem“, (“The Russian Problem”), Nationalsozialistische Briefe (15 November 1925), Manfred Weißbecker, ‘“Wenn hier Deutsche wohnten…”. Beharrung und Veränderung im Rußlandbild Hitlers und der NSDAP, in: Volkmann H. (Hrsg.): Das Rußlandbild im Dritten Reich. Stuttgart (1994), p. 19-20. Quoted in Nazi Germany and the European East in the Twentieth Century, ed. Eduard Mühle, Chap. 4, “Nazi Germany and the European East,” Gerhand Hirschfeld, Berg Publishers, Oxford, UK (2003) p. 71.

I have devoted exhaustive study to the Protocols of Zion. In the past objection was always made that they were not suited to present day propaganda. In reading them now I find that we can use them very well. The Protocols of Zion are as modern today as they were when published the first time! At noon I mentioned this to the Führer. He believed the protocols to be absolutely genuine!

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

Germany, on the other hand, has based its domestic policies on new and modern social principles. That is why it is a danger to English plutocracy. It is also why English capitalists want to destroy Hitlerism. They see Hitlerism as all the generous social reforms that have occurred in Germany since 1933. The English plutocrats rightly fear that good things are contagious, that they could endanger English capitalism.

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