Quotes from Hermann Goring

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

It's east to start a war in any country

I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

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

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

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

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