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No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz. — John Leo

The language of science - and especially of a science of man - is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity. — Thomas Szasz

Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized. — Thomas Szasz

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude. — Thomas Szasz

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. — Thomas Szasz

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. — Thomas Szasz

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. — Thomas Szasz

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing — Thomas Szasz

'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. — Thomas Szasz

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism. — Thomas Szasz

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. — Thomas Szasz

Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished. — Thomas Szasz

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis. — Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. — Thomas Szasz

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real? — Thomas Szasz

If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you. — Thomas Szasz

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. — Thomas Szasz

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people. — Thomas Szasz

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic. — Thomas Szasz

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.. — Thomas Szasz

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around. — Thomas Szasz

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. — Thomas Szasz

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth. — Thomas Szasz

Anyone who seeks to help others - whether by means of religion or by means of medicine - must eschew the use of force. — Thomas Szasz

The battle for the world is the battle for definitions. — Thomas Szasz

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment. — Thomas Szasz

Scientific knowledge does not contain within itself directions for its humanitarian use. — Thomas Szasz

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations. — Thomas Szasz

Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. — Thomas Szasz

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression. — Thomas Szasz

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left. — Thomas Szasz

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature. — Thomas Szasz

Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person. — Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. — Thomas Szasz

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world. — Thomas Szasz

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. — Thomas Szasz

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. — Thomas Szasz

The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. — Thomas Szasz

We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters. — Thomas Szasz

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz

The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens. — Thomas Szasz

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself. — Thomas Szasz

Why don't you have a right to say you are Jesus? And why isn't the proper response to that "congratulations"? — Thomas Szasz

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse. — Thomas Szasz

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years. — Thomas Szasz

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds. — Thomas Szasz

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. — Thomas Szasz

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it. — Thomas Szasz

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. — Thomas Szasz

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. — Thomas Szasz

Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play. — Thomas Szasz

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense. — Thomas Szasz

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. — Thomas Szasz

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are. — Thomas Szasz

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. — Thomas Szasz

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. — Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia — Thomas Szasz

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. — Thomas Szasz

The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else. — Thomas Szasz

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. — Thomas Szasz

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. — Thomas Szasz