43 Quotations by Thomas Szasz
- 1. A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr ...
- 2. Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each cond ...
- 3. Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of mode ...
- 4. Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about pers ...
- 5. Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. T ...
- 6. Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when scien ...
- 7. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usuall ...
- 8. Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- 9. He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect l ...
- 10. If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why l ...
- 11. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
- 12. If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
- 13. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
- 14. In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
- 15. Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vo ...
- 16. Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like pr ...
- 17. It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are c ...
- 18. Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.
- 19. Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, ac ...
- 20. Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is ...
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