JOSEPH GOEBBELS

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

We need a firm hand in Germany.

Research in the realm atomic destruction, has now proceeded to point where its results may possibly be made use of in the conduct of the war. Tremendous destruction … can be wrought with a minimum of effort ….Modern technique places in the hands of human beings means of destruction that are simply incredible. German science is at its peak in this matter. It is essential that we be ahead of everybody.

Many people here are completely unsuitable for shaping public opinion. I am going to weed them out.

A good government can no more exist without propaganda than propaganda can exist without a good government.

We can learn a lot from these Bolsheviks—most of all in the use of propaganda.

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

Hitler has become Chancellor… It’s like a fairy tale come true.

Himmler hates me. Now I am going to bring him down.

Big corporations are all to be nationalized.

Goering is a morphine addict…a classic megalomaniac.

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

A revolting, fat, beast.

In the long run sea power will be no match for air power.

What does Christianity mean today. Our religion is National Socialism.

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of it's powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.

The camera will show the true face of war.

The old decadent, worm-eaten liberalism is finished

This man [Adolf Hitler] has everything it takes to be a king. The born tribune of the people … the coming dictator.

Important is not what is right, but what wins.