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  • I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.

    Pigs   Sausage   Flesh  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.

    Names   Enemy   Bombers  
    Addressing the Luftwaffe in September 1939. "August 1939: The Last Days of Peace" by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171, 1979.
  • Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

  • 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.

    Hurt   People   History  
  • Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

    Hunting   Fur   Togas  
  • To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

    Suicide   War   Men  
    Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
  • It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

    Silly   People   Goering  
  • 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.

    Instructions to Reinhard Heydrich, 31 July 1941. Drafted by Adolf Eichmann.
  • 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.

    Party   Class   Goering  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • 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?

  • The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

    Goering   Jew   One Thing  
    Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss, 1938. Testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, pp. 5-6, October 20, 1945.
  • Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot." [Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006]

    Country   New York   War  
  • We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

    Goering   World   Villain  
    Statement in 1937. "Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order" by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291, 2004.
  • Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

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

    Powerful   Gun   History  
    Speech, Hamburg, Germany, 1936
  • In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

    Remark on May 21, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
  • 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!

    Goering   Action   Murder  
    Closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal on August 31, 1946. "Witness to Nuremberg" by Richard Sonnenfeldt, p. 70, 2006.
  • 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.

    Country   Peace   Freedom  
    Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
  • I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

    Remark on May 27, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
  • 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.

    At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, December 11, 1945. "Nuremberg Diary" by Gustave Gilbert, p. 66, 1947.
  • Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

  • According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

  • Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

    Powerful   Military   Gun  
    Radio broadcast in 1936. "The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage" by William L. Safire, p. 178, 1968.
  • In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

  • Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

    Past   Ideas   Desire  
  • Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

  • 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.

    Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.
  • Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

    Richard Overy (2012). “Goering: Hitler's Iron Knight”, p.236, I.B.Tauris
  • 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.

    Kings   Russia   Laughing  
    Remark on May 28, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
  • Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

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