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
distance lying night
At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible . Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
destiny guilt world
Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.
tired suffering earth
The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.
winning people propaganda
To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
goal laughing sacred
We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.
war hate fighting
The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.
hypocrisy dying characteristics
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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?
beautiful mean world
O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.
today absolutes seems
Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
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.
views order giving
Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.
character intellectual building
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
mean sacrifice self
To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.