Joseph Goebbels Quotes - Page 4

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

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.

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

Man only honors what he conquers or defends.

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

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.

O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.

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

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

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.

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

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.

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.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

One can only repeat about air warfare: we are in a position of almost hopeless inferiority and must grin and bear it as we take the blows from the English and the Americans. [Germans in the bombed cities] are gradually beginning to lose their courage. Hell like that is hard to bear for any length of time, especially since the inhabitants along the Rhine and Ruhr see no prospect of improvement.

Leben verstehen wir Deutschen vielleicht nicht, aber sterben, das können wir fabelhaft! (We, the germans, might not be able to live, but to die, that we marvellously)

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.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.

It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

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

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.