Joseph Goebbels Quotes

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Ready for the revolution!

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Revolution, not elections!

The National Revolution has begun.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

We are revolutionaries.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

I was born in revolution.

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Those who are inclined to compromise can never make a revolution.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

One does not make revolutions by halves

The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

I am a radical.