Joseph Goebbels Quotes

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Every nation must have some degree of military organization, even among the most peaceful peoples. The possession of armament however, no matter how necessary, breeds suspicion, fear, counter-armament and hate.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witnesses to human folly.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

We make war that we may live in peace.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

We send them the instruments [arms] and they pull the trigger.

Great armaments lead inevitably to war.

We will need ploughshares and swords.

Big armies have always brought, not peace, but war which has ended in a hate that in due course brings another war.

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

I like war.