Thomas Szasz Quotes
Top 62 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The language of science - and especially of a science of man - is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.
The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
Anyone who seeks to help others - whether by means of religion or by means of medicine - must eschew the use of force.
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.
Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.
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.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
Why don't you have a right to say you are Jesus? And why isn't the proper response to that "congratulations"?
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.
He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.