Joseph Goebbels quotes

Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician who served as Minister of Propaganda under Adolf Hitler. A key architect of the Nazi regime’s messaging, he orchestrated extensive propaganda campaigns to manipulate public opinion. He played a central role in spreading antisemitic ideologies and maintaining the regime’s control through media. Here are 156 of his quotes:

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

Joseph Goebbels

The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.

Joseph Goebbels

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.

Joseph Goebbels

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx.

Joseph Goebbels

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

Joseph Goebbels

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.

Joseph Goebbels

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

Joseph Goebbels

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.

Joseph Goebbels

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Joseph Goebbels

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

Joseph Goebbels

The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

Joseph Goebbels

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

Joseph Goebbels

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.

Joseph Goebbels

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

I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.

Joseph Goebbels

Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

Joseph Goebbels

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

Joseph Goebbels

Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

Joseph Goebbels

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Joseph Goebbels

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

Joseph Goebbels

When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.

Joseph Goebbels

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

Joseph Goebbels