Joseph Goebbels Quotes

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

Faith in the Fuhrer is enveloped, it could almost be said, in a mysterious, unfathomable mysticism.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

Spend most of the day reading fascisti pamphlets. They certainly have turned the whole country into an army. From cradle to grave one is cast in the mould of fascismo and there can be no escape…. It is certainly a socialist experiment in that it destroys individuality. It also destroys liberty.

The student body of the University of Freiburg announces that it is determined to carry the fight against Jewish-Marxist undermining of Germany to the bitter end, to the complete annihilation of the foe. The public burnings of Jewish-Marxist writings on May 10, 1933, served as a symbol of this fight. Germans, rally to this fight! Make your participation public! From the publishers and bookstores send us all books and writings that deserve burning. Let each one bring what he finds, or tell us about it so that we may go get it. The fire of destruction is to us like a blazing up of the German spirit and German custom and practice.

it may be shrewdly forecast that no man will exhibit dimensions of permanent greatness equal to Mussolini.... The Duce is now the greatest figure of this sphere and time.

If only I could dine with Stalin once a week, there would be no trouble at all.

Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

I wish I could send some of my Storm Troopers to Chicago and other big American Cities to help in the elections. We look to Heinrich Ford as the leader of the growing Fascist movement in America …. We have had his anti-Jewish articles translated and published. The book is being circulated in millions throughout Germany.

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

Fascism is not an article for export.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.

Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.