Quotes by Hermann Goering

“Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.”

“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”

“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?”

“You cant say civilization dont advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”

“Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!”

“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.”

“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.”

“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.”