| | Joseph Goebbels, also called the virtuoso of [[Goebbels' maxim|lying propaganda]] took control of, not only the press, but also radio, film, theather, music, literature, and publishing, purging Jews and all opposition to Nazism from them. He was also behind ''The Eternal Jew'' and ''Jude Süss'', now regarded for being the most notorious anti-Semitic films in history of film industry.<ref name="Bergman2012"/> | | Joseph Goebbels, also called the virtuoso of [[Goebbels' maxim|lying propaganda]] took control of, not only the press, but also radio, film, theather, music, literature, and publishing, purging Jews and all opposition to Nazism from them. He was also behind ''The Eternal Jew'' and ''Jude Süss'', now regarded for being the most notorious anti-Semitic films in history of film industry.<ref name="Bergman2012"/> |
| − | The nineteenth-century French [[economist]], statesman, and author [[Frédéric Bastiat]] warned that ''"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Economic Harmonies |author=Bastiat, Frédéric |publisher=Liberty Fund, Inc.; Econlib |pages=21.35 |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basHar21.html#Chapter 21 |accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> | + | A high moral standard cannot be reached or maintained unless it is generally accepted and understood by an overwhelming number of people.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rage Against God |author=[[Peter Hitchens]] |publisher=www.continuumbooks.com |place=London, New York |year=2010 |chapter=6. Homo sovieticus |page=66 |isbn=978-1441-10572-1 |url=https://book.google.com/books?id=y3fOBAAAQBAJ }}</ref> The nineteenth-century French [[economist]], statesman, and author [[Frédéric Bastiat]] warned that ''"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."''<ref>{{cite web |title=Economic Harmonies |author=Bastiat, Frédéric |publisher=Liberty Fund, Inc.; Econlib |pages=21.35 |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basHar21.html#Chapter 21 |accessdate=May 17, 2015}}</ref> |