Goering Quotes - Page 2

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

  Hermann Goring

  Silly, People, Moral

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• 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

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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

  Hermann Goring

  Trials, Sense Of Humor, Ifs

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

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• 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.

  Hermann Goring

  Suicide, War, Men

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• 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

  At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, December 11, 1945. "Nuremberg Diary" by Gustave Gilbert, p. 66, 1947.

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

  Richard Overy

  Character, Contradictory, Complexes

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

  Richard Overy

  Past, Ideas, Desire

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• 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

  Notebook, Political, Leather

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

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

  Richard Overy

  Routine Work, Argument, Endless

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

  Richard Overy

  Hunting, Fur, Togas

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• Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Believe, Mean, Long

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

  Richard Overy

  Men, All Things

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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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pigs, Sausage, Flesh

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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]

  Jon Stewart

  Country, New York, War

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• Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Order, Nazism, Socialism

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• 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.

  Bob Gunton

  Roles, Television, Juan

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

  Adolf Galland

  Fighter, Command, Supposed To Be

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