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Joseph Goebbels Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Propaganda, Subtlety
“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.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Motherhood, Teacher, Friend
“The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: nighttime
“Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.”
— Joseph Goebbels,
Tagged: Lenin, Hitler, Communism
“The money pigs of capitalist democracy….Money has made slaves of us…Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Capitalism, Money, Sweat, Blood, Slavery
“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Socialism, Individualism, Collectivism
“One only honors what one conquers or defends.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Honor
“He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: devil, Hate, Love, God
“Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Self-improvement
“We shall be quiet and wait till a star falls from heaven. Can you see, how above one light appears after the other and they together form a dome! We sit in silence and fold our hands in prayer. We shall be quiet and wait until a star falls from heaven.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: prayer
“He who defends the Jew harms his own people.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Anti-Semitism
“It is rotten and dismal that a world of so many hundred million people should be ruled by a single caste that has the power to lead millions to life or to death, indeed on a whim...This caste has spun its web over the entire earth; capitalism recognizes no national boundaries...Capitalism has learned nothing from recent events and wants to learn nothing, because it places its own interests ahead of those of the other millions. Can one blame those millions for standing up for their own interests, and only for those interests? Can one blame them for striving to forge an international community whose purpose is the struggle against corrupt capitalism? Can one condemn a large segment of the educated Stürmer youth for protesting against the greatest ability? Is it not an abomination that people with the most brilliant intellectual gifts should sink into poverty and disintegrate, while others dissipate, squander, and waste the money that could help them?…You say the old propertied class also worked hard for what it has. Granted, that may be true in many cases. But do you also know about the conditions under which workers were living during the period when capitalism 'earned' its fortune?”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Capitalism, workers, Exploitation, Self-Interest
“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda. In the beginning there is the understanding, this understanding uses propaganda as a tool to find those men, that shall turn understanding into politics. Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things from what I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths. Those are found in other circumstances, I find them when thinking at my desk, but not in the meeting hall.”
— Joseph Goebbels
Tagged: Propaganda, Berlin
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