What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. – Thomas Mann
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. – Thomas Mann