Quotes by Thomas Szasz
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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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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.
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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the ...
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, ...
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
