What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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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.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
- Thomas Mann