Quotes by Thomas Szasz
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to ...
thomas szasz
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient ...
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Emile In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus ...
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
