Hermann Goering Quotes

Of course the people don't want war... It is the leaders...who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along...all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Naturally the common people don't want war ... but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

We don't want to fight, But, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men We've got the money too.

It is absurd to believe in the possibility of perpetual peace...Fascist education must be education for battle.

Every government explains its existence, and justifies its deeds of violence, by the argument that if it did not exist the condition of things would be very much worse. After assuring the people of its danger the government subordinates it to control, and when in this condition compels it to attack some other nation. And thus the assurance of the government is corroborated in the eyes of the people, as to the danger of attack from other nations.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear--kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

For all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!

In a war, as indeed at most times, we become the ready victims of phrases.

Let American cities be bombarded and razed rather than pay a dollar to any foe for their safety.

An army is a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.