Thomas Mann on good and evil

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke1729–1797

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal1623–1662

• Anti-Religion

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein1879–1955