| A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas S Szasz |
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| A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. Thomas S Szasz |
| Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control. Thomas S Szasz Quotations |
| Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas S Szasz |
| Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. Thomas S Szasz Adages |
| Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily... Thomas S Szasz Quotes |
| 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. Thomas S Szasz |
| Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas S Szasz Quotes |
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| If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas S Szasz |
| In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients. Thomas S Szasz |
| Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. Thomas S Szasz Adages |
| Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. Thomas S Szasz |
| 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. Thomas S Szasz Quotes |
| Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American Society within the last fifty years. Thomas S Szasz Remarks |
| Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.-- Thomas S Szasz Sayings |
| 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. Thomas S 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 S Szasz |
| The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas S Szasz Adages |
