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No one attacks loose-thinking and folly with half the precision and zest of Thomas Szasz.
— John Leo
Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.
— 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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
— Thomas Szasz
