Joseph Goebbels Quotes

If you tell a lie, tell a big one.

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

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

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.

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.

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

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

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

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.

If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.

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

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.