Joseph Goebbels Quotes

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

It is better to be subject to the Laws under one Master, than to be subservient to many.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage or office holding.

If there are no superior people to look after a population, the common people have no security.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

Nothing appears more surprising ... than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

The people who own the country ought to govern it.

Fearing the weakness of democracy, men have always sought safety in technocrats. But ... [we] have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down before the divine right of experts.

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

Women ruled all; and ministers of state Were at the doors of women forced to wait,-- Women, who we oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

The case for government by elites is irrefutable.

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.