Thomas Mann Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil"

by:	Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1929)
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Categories:	Crime, Tolerance
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evil equals - compelled compliance, license, victimless crimes, theft of the noble laborer's fruit, non recognition of individual sovereign inalienable rights and the other occupying statis theocracy's policies. -- Mike, Norwalk
Evil triumphs when good men do what? ?? -- cal, Lewisville, Tx
That may be, but it requires the proper judgement of evil -- I know some Baptists that really think the Pope is evil, and there are other fundamentalists who see nearly the entire world as evil -- and they will not tolerate it. This is the creed of every pre-emptive busy-body, too, not just those on the moral high ground. I think I remember something in the Bible about judging not, lest ye be judged... -- E Archer, NYC