Hermann Goring famous quotes

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
-- Hermann Goring

#Country #War #People

Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy.
-- Hermann Goring

#Enemy #Nazism #Dangerous

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver
-- Hermann Goring

#Culture #Revolver

And another question was unfortunately not asked of Göring: 'The German people put faith in you even if they doubted Hitler because you were gentlemanly and more likable. What did you, Göring, do to justify this confidence? You have led a luxurious life and collected stolen art.
-- Hermann Goring

#Art #People #Stolen

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to 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 every country.
-- Hermann Goring

#Country #Peace #War

No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.
-- Hermann Goring

#Names #Enemy #Bombers

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
-- Hermann Goring

#Razors #Blades #Refrigerators

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
-- Hermann Goring

#Trials #Sense Of Humor

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
-- Hermann Goring

#Powerful #Gun #Fats

The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.
-- Hermann Goring

#Mean #Car #Investing

Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.
-- Hermann Goring

#Enemy #Bombs #Able

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!
-- Hermann Goring

#Fire

What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?
-- Hermann Goring

#Soldier #Enemy #Care

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.
-- Hermann Goring

#Cinema #Berlin #Hundred

Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.
-- Hermann Goring

#Strong #War #Fighting

Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.
-- Hermann Goring

#Hurt #People #Police

I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.
-- Hermann Goring

#Kings #Russia #Laughing

I will decide who is a Jew!
-- Hermann Goring

#Jew

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.
-- Hermann Goring

#Party #Nazism #Revolutionary

The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!
-- Hermann Goring

#Jew

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.
-- Hermann Goring

#Party #Class #Movement

My Luftwaffe is invincible... And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?
-- Hermann Goring

#Two #Long #Three

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.
-- Hermann Goring

#Stupid #People #Scary

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence.
-- Hermann Goring

#Europe #Preparation #Territory

All it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a...
-- Hermann Goring

#Country #Leader #Policy

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
-- Hermann Goring

#Powerful #Gun #Nazism

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.
-- Hermann Goring

#Men #Renaissance #May

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.
-- Hermann Goring

#Police #Bullets #Nazism

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.
-- Hermann Goring

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Firsts

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
-- Hermann Goring

#World #Villain #Worst

My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.
-- Hermann Goring

#Justice #Worry #Missions

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
-- Hermann Goring

#War #Agriculture #People

The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.
-- Hermann Goring

#Exercise #Agreement #People

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.
-- Hermann Goring

#Thinking #Feelings #Logic

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!
-- Hermann Goring

#Action #Murder #Killing

Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein. The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.
-- Hermann Goring

#Judging #Accused

After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
-- Hermann Goring

#California #Expansion #United States