Quotes by Mann, Thomas

What is uttered is finished and done with. >>

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and p >>

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? >>

Quotations about Democracy

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly >>

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and >>

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings ever >>

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.

Mann, Thomas