Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. One of Adolf Hitler's close associates and most devoted followers, he was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep and virulent antisemitism, which led to his supporting the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth29 October 1897
CountryGermany
spiritual people want
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.
morning children ocean
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.
men christ modern
The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
photography views play
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)
war europe iron
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.
men honor conquer
Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
deceit propaganda made
We have made the Reich by propaganda
people cameras thanks
The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
gun anarchy heresy
If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
doors history scene
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..
arses bombs logic
It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.
lying stupid ifs-and
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.
character intellectual building
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
war military want
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?