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Joseph Goebbels
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“Communism. Jewry. I am a German Communist.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peter Longerich, Goebbels: A Biography, New York, NY, Random House (2015) p. 26, “Erinnerungsblätter,” 27, Part 1, Volume 1, page 27, (diary entry: 1924)
“The social is a stopgap. Socialism is the ideology of the future.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Open Letter to Ernst Graf zu Reventlow in the Völkische Freiheit, 1925, as quoted in Goebbels: A Biography, Peter Longerich, Random House, 2015, p. 55
“You and I, we are fighting each other but we are not really enemies. By doing so we are dividing our strength, and we shall never reach our goal. Maybe the final extremity will bring us together. Maybe.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nationalsozialismus oder Bolschewismus? (National Socialism or Bolshevism), open letter to “My Friends on the Left,” Nationalsozialistische Briefe (National Socialist Letters), (Oct. 15, 1925); Joseph Gobbles, Quoted in…
“Yesterday you beat about the bush on the Jewish question. I know why. Please don’t object. We don’t want to deceive each other. You are an anti-Semite as I am. You don’t yet want to admit this to yourself. The Jew can at best exist in Communism. The Jew in a national-Bolshevist state is an absurdity.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nationalsozialismus oder Bolschewismus? (National Socialism or Bolshevism), open letter to “My Friends on the Left,” Nationalsozialistische Briefe (National Socialist Letters), (Oct. 15, 1925); Nazi Ideology before 1933…
“Lenin sacrificed Marx and instead gave Russia freedom. You want to sacrifice German freedom for Marx. Even the Bolshevik Jew has clearly recognized the compelling necessity of the Russian national state and has early and wisely adjusted himself to it.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rebuke to German communists. National Socialism or Bolshevism? (Nationalsozialismus oder Bolschewismus?) NS-Briefe (October 25, 1925)
“Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times, “HITLERITE RIOT IN BERLIN: Beer Glasses Fly When Speaker Compares Hitler and Lenin,” (Nov. 28, 1925) p. 4.
“Rußland ... einst im Geiste seines größten Denkers, im Geiste Dostojewskis erwachen wird.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: National Socialism or Bolshevism (November 15, 1925), National Socialist Letters (Nationalsozialistische Briefe), co-written with Gregor Strasser for the . Quoted in Dr. Joseph Goebbels: (1. Aufl.) by , Molden, 1971. Tr…
“Der uns von Natur gegebene Bundesgenosse gegen die teuflische Versuchung und Korruption des Westens ist.”
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Recorded in: About Russia, National Socialism or Bolshevism (November 15, 1925), National Socialist Letters (Nationalsozialistische Briefe), co-written with Gregor Strasser for the . Quoted in Dr. Joseph Goebbels: (1. Aufl.) by , Mo…
“Therefore, Russia is our natural ally against the devilish temptation and corruption of the west.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Das russische Problem“, (“The Russian Problem”), Nationalsozialistische Briefe (15 November 1925), Manfred Weißbecker, ‘“Wenn hier Deutsche wohnten…”. Beharrung und Veränderung im Rußlandbild Hitlers und der NSDAP, in: …
“Stock-exchange capital is not productive but parasitically hoarded capital. It is no longer tied to the soil but rootless and internationalist; it does not produce but has infiltrated the normal production process in order to drain profits from it. It consist of movable assets, i.e. raw cash; its chief carrier is Jewish high finance, whose goal is to put the producing populace to work, then pocket the proceeds from their labor.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ralf Georg Reuth, Goebbels, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993, p. 68, “Little National Socialist’s ABC,” Goebbels’ draft presented on January, 24, 1926 meeting in Hanover
“Communism is nothing but a grotesque distortion of true Socialist thought. We and we alone could become the genuine Socialists in Germany, or for that matter, in Europe.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Count E. Von Reventlow (mid 1920s), quoted in Joseph Goebbels: A Biography, Curt Riess, Hollis and Carter, London (1949) p. 37
“We will never get anywhere, if we lean on the interests of the cultured and propertied classes. Everything will come to us if we appeal to the hunger and despair of the masses.”
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Recorded in: Curt Riess, Joseph Goebbels: A Biography, Abridged, Ballantine Books, New York (1960) p. 21 (mid-1920s)
“That is why we place ourselves alongside Russia as equal partners in the struggle for this freedom which means everything to us.”
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Recorded in: Orientation: West or East,” Nationalsozialistische Briefe, (National Socialist Letters) (15 January 1926), as quoted in Goebbels: A Biography, Peter Longerich , Random House, 2015, p. 65
“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 (1897–1945) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History, Dietrich Orlow, New York: NY, Enigma Books, 2012, p 61. Goebbels’ article, “Nationalsozialisten aus Berlin und aus dem Reich”, Voelkischer Beobachter, February 4, …
“One class has fulfilled its historical mission and is about to yield to another. The bourgeoisie has to yield to the working class ... Whatever is about to fall should be pushed. We are all soldiers of the revolution. We want the workers' victory over filthy lucre. That is socialism.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death, Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, New York, NY, Skyhorse Publishing, 2010 p. 25, conversation with Hertha Holk
“Production that is essentially completed, which no longer requires strength, ability, inventiveness, entrepreneurship and brilliance (e.g., the transportation system, trusts, conglomerates) will be brought back to state ownership.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Der Nazi-Sozi, Elberfeld: Verlag der Nationalsozialistischen Briefe (1927)
“We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Do We Want to Join the Reichstag? Der Angriff, 30 April 1928
“The political bourgeoisie is about to leave the stage of history. In its place advance the oppressed producers of the head and hand, the forces of Labor (Arbeitertum), to being their historical mission.”
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Recorded in: Warum sind wir Sozialisten,” Der Angriff editorial, July 16, 1928, reprinted in Der Angriff, Munich 1935, p. 223. David Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, W.W. Norton & …
“We are socialists, because we see in socialism, that means, in the fateful dependence of all folk comrades upon each other, the sole possibility for the preservation of our racial genetics and thus the re-conquest of our political freedom and for the rejuvenation of the German state.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why We Are Socialists?” Der Angriff (The Attack ) (16 July 1928) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) p. 262
“Socialism is only achievable in a state that is internally united and externally free. Both goals, internal unity and external freedom, have been lost to us through the fault of bourgeoisie and Marxism. Both these groups, as national and social as they may deport themselves, are the mortal enemies of a socialist national state… Against the political bourgeoisie: for genuine nationalism! Against Marxism: for genuine socialism!”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why We Are Socialists?” Der Angriff (The Attack ) (16 July 1928) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) pp. 263-264
“The eight hour work day is one of the most justified demands of the workers… Nobody who feels even just a trace of social feeling within himself will be able to stand aloof from the moral as well as the social-political justification for this demand. Well, work, as is known, is not an end in itself, rather only a means to an end.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who Sabotages the Eight Hour Work Day?” Der Angriff (The Attack ) (17 September 1928) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) p. 282
“We are not a charitable institution but a Party of revolutionary socialists.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Einheitsfront,” Der Angriff editorial, May 27, 1929. David Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939, W.W. Norton & Company (1997) p. 25
“The firmer the republic takes its subjects in tax forced labor and tribute duty, the louder it talks about the rights of the republicans. National Socialism puts an end to that: for it, each state citizen must assume duties toward the state corresponding to his abilities, but every assumed duty conditions a right. The more duties, the more rights.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Folk Comradeship,” Der Angriff (The Attack) (11 February 1929) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) p. 214
“Capitalism assumes unbearable forms at the moment when the personal purposes that it serves run contrary to the interest of the overall folk. It then proceeds from things and not from people. Money is then the axis around which everything revolves. It is the reverse with socialism. The socialist worldview begins with the folk and then goes over to things. Things are made subservient to the folk; the socialist puts the folk above everything, and things are only means to an end.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Capitalism,” Der Angriff (The Attack) (15 July 1929) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) p. 220
“Never in world history has a new worldview—and socialism is such a thing—triumphed in capitulation, always only in resistance, in attack. In 1918 there was only one task for the German socialist: to keep the weapons and defend German socialism. One did not do that. One talked and made resolutions, and the German worker did not notice at all that in the process he just held the stirrups of his bitterest enemy, world money.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Capitalism,” Der Angriff (The Attack) (15 July 1929) as quoted in English translation Attack: Essays from the Time of Struggle, RJG Enterprises (2010) p. 221
“The system of liberal capitalist democracy is already so rotten inside that there is nothing left to mend or reform. It must be fundamentally destroyed, shattered spiritually and in terms of power politics, so that a young, new generation can build a future on the ruins of the past.”
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“Nationally, the ruling class is failing. They sit in their mouse holes and let the storm roar over them. Socialism chases Marxism away. It gladly and willingly allows itself to be taken in tow by international Jewish capitalist interests. That was not a revolution! It was mutiny, it was a miserable, pathetic, cowardly stock market revolt!”
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“The will to freedom rises up from the collapsing system. It finds its form in fundamentally new ideas: in Bolshevism and National Socialism. Both emerge with the ultimate belief that they will bring freedom to an entire world by overthrowing it. Bolshevism and National Socialism are embodied in two people who lead a purposeful minority in the will to the future: Lenin and Hitler.”
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“How does Lenin tackle the agrarian problem? He expropriates all land and gives it to the Russian peasant as property. Not directly. He leases the land to him for 99 years. But the Russian peasant today regards land as his property. In doing so, Lenin slaps the Marxist doctrine in the face. It calls for the socialization of the means of production. Lenin sacrifices Marx and gives in to the Russian peasant’s insistence on his own soil.”
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“Industrial reform in Russia took place as Karl Marx had suggested. They actually tried to merge industry and the state. It failed. The Russian worker got rid of his Russian bloodsuckers — to leave the field to the Jew. Today the Jew is the master of Russia, Jewish capital rules, the Russian is a slave to stock market dictatorship.”
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“Simply stated: capital and capitalism are two different things. The struggle is against capitalism, not capital. It is not the fact that there are factories, that there are mining assets, that is to blame for our misery, but rather the way in which they are managed and exploited contrary to the people’s welfare. Capitalism is the immoral distribution of capital. Marxism is Jewish there, too; it fights national capital in order to make it capitalism. Its theory is demagogic. Its practice is devastating.”
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“Thus, we see from Lenin and his industrial reform that no salvation can come to the German people from this side, because communism, Marxism, as an ally of the Jewish stock market swindlers, never wants real freedom. It needs compliant slaves for its system of exploitation, but no free people for its plans for world domination. Real freedom means its end.”
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“Marxism did not want socialism at all because the men stood and stand behind it preached phases of freedom, peace, and prosperity, but did not want social liberation at all, only using the workers as willing slaves for their purposes!... What we call National Socialism is the result of bourgeois betrayal of the national idea and Marxist betrayal of the socialist idea.”
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“The socialism we want has nothing to do with international Marxist-Jewish egalitarianism. We want socialism as a doctrine of the community.”
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“I dedicate this book to the memory of my friend Richard Flisges, who died as a brave soldier of work in a mine at Schliersee on the 19th of July 1923.”
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Recorded in: Dieses Buch widme ich dem Andenken meines Freundes Richard Flisges, der am 19. Juli 1923 in einem Bergwerk bei Schliersee als tapferer Soldat der Arbeit in den schweren Tod ging.
“1920. Both of us were about to capitulate facing spiritual breakdown. Then we helped each other to stand tall and did not falter. My answer was: Resistance!”
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Recorded in: 1920. Wir standen beide im Begriff, vor seelischem Zusammenbruch zu kapitulieren. Da richteten wir uns aneinander auf und strauchelten kaum. Meine Antwort war: Trotz!
“1923. You challenged your fate. To surmount or to die! It was not yet time. Therefore you became a victim. Your answer was: Death!”
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Recorded in: 1923. Du fordertest dein Schicksal in die Schranken. Biegen oder brechen! Noch war es zu früh. Deshalb wurdest du Opfer. Deine Antwort war: Tod!
“1927. I stood in front of your grave; in radiating sunshine there was a still, green mound. And it was preaching about mortality. My answer was: resurrection.”
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Recorded in: 1927. Ich stand an deinem Grab; im glastenden Sonnenschein lag ein stiller, grüner Hügel. Und predigte Vergänglichkeit. Meine Antwort war: Auferstehung.
“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.”
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“I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.”
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“Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.”
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“One only honours what one conquers or defends.”
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“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.”
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“A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.”
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“Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.”
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“The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.”
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“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.”
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“If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.”
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“Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.”
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“I should like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.”
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