Goering Quotes

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

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

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

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

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

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

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

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

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.

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

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

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!

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

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

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

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

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

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

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.

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

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.