Joseph Goebbels Professions : German Politician Born : October 29, 1897 Died : May 1, 1945 Browse All Authors Top 109 quotes by Joseph Goebbels I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. Joseph Goebbels ordinary islands people [Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. Joseph Goebbels world-history figures world Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated. Joseph Goebbels eastern jew made 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. Joseph Goebbels morning war lying To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths. Joseph Goebbels modern form mean If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic andor military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. Joseph Goebbels Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and free internationally. The bourgeoisie (capitalists) and Marxism are responsible for failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom. No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves, they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state. We must therefore break both groups politically. The lines of German socialism are sharp, and our path is clear. We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism! We are against Marxism, but for true socialism! We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature! We are for the National Socialist German Workers Party! Joseph Goebbels Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing; a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland. Joseph Goebbels We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state. Joseph Goebbels Similar Authors Andre Brie german-politician August Bebel german-politician Heinrich August Winkler german-politician Claudia Roth german-politician Gustav Stresemann german-politician Gustav Radbruch german-politician All Authors