“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
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
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