The quote "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." is famous quote by Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate.
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6, section, A Good Soldier as translated by Woods (1996), p. 506
"A Plea For Intolerance" (1931)
"When evil-doing comes like falling rain" [Wenn die Untat kommt, wie der Regen fällt] (1935), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 247
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“The best known evil is the most tolerable.”
Notissimum [...] malum maxime tolerabile
Book XXIII, sec. 3
History of Rome
Variant: Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
“The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.”
Online promotional material (6 June 2006).
2006
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 162.
“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”
Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“I am ashamed to have belonged in an army, that witnessed and tolerated all these crimes.”
von Alvensleben, Udo (1971): Lauter Abschiede. Tagebuch im Kriege. Berlin: Ullstein, p. 257.
“What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.”
Excerpt from the poem Someone Else's Mug in the book Dark Letter Days: Collected Works (2016) by Lorin Morgan-Richards.
