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| Thomas Mann Quote [PHOTO SOURCE: http://izquotes.com/quote/249780] |
QUOTE: “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
AUTHOR: Paul Thomas Mann ([paʊ̯l
toːmas man]; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short
story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist and 1929 Nobel laureate.
His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their
insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis
and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical
stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Mann was a
member of the Hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in the
novel Buddenbrooks. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich
Mann and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also
became important German writers. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled
to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United
States, returning to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the best-known
exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur.
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