Joseph Goebbels Quotes

The only way to save our empires from the encroaching of the people is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations.

War is the national industry of Germany [Prussia].

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.

There can be no peace until this German spirit of Militarism is crushed.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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

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

Any great war must be a popular movement.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

The people, ever greedy for war, till they suffer by it …

In wartime the herd instinct rise …

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

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

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.

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.

When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

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.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

Fascism means war.

I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any domestic establishment.

I am fed up with war and the clamor for war.

[Theodore Roosevelt] came down here [Washington DC] looking for war. He did not care whom we fought as long as there was a scrap.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.