Who said This ?????

[welshTerrier2]

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

no googling please ...

[prodigal_green]

1. Goebbles or Goering

I always get them confused.

[Zynx]

2. I would go with Goebbles here.

It sounds like something he would say.

[TahitiNut]

3. The latter ... during the Nuremberg trials.

:shrug: (Bush isn't Hitler, so stop say that.)

[Sporadicus]

4. Goering n/t

[welshTerrier2]

Goering it is ...

great job, DU'ers ...

[ikojo]

5. A Nazi....I think it was Goebbels

or maybe Karl Rove's grandfather.

[maine_raptor]

6. Herr Goering

or "The Fat One" as he was known by those he commanded

[baldguy]

7. Reichmarshall Hermann Goering

"Why, of course people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.

"That is understood.

"But, after all, it is the leaders of the 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 tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

"It works the same in any country."


I have this quote saved on my PDA.

[joshdawg]

9. Thanks for the post.

That is scary as hell!!!

[leftbend]

8. Hermann Goering

Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. I keep this quote on the bulletin board by my computer as a reminder. The last sentence is really scary.."It works the same in every country."