"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."
― Thomas Mann
Topic(s):
Trust
More From Thomas Mann
- "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
- "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
- "It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."
More In Trust
- "Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it’s religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment."― Sally Quinn
- "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time."― Arthur Ashe
- "If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good."― Eric Braeden