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Thomas Szasz  Quotes
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

—Thomas Szasz

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DoubtTrust
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The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

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Intimacy
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Some people say they haven’t yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

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Self-Discovery
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

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American Psychologist
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The proverb warns that ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

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American Psychologist
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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

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American Psychologist
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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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Work
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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.

—Thomas Szasz

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American PsychologistMagic
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Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere

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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

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American Psychologist
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All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

—Thomas Szasz

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Addiction
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Since the Freudian revolution, and especially since the Second World War, the secret formula has been this: If you want to debase what a person is doing, call his act psychopathological and call him mentally...

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Revolution
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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

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American PsychologistAuthority
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Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

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People
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

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American Psychologist
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.

—Thomas Szasz

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Disease
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

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American Psychologist
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Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the...

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Psychoanalysis
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In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients.

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Men
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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.

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If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

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American PsychologistGod
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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, and to encourage as useful,...

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Punishment
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Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

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Men
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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.

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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…

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Children
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No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to...

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American Psychologist
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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.

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American Psychologist
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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 control of the individual’s body.

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Body
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy...

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Love
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The system isn’t stupid, but the people in it are.

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American Psychologist
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

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American Psychologist
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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 yourself, you are considered selfish.

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American Psychologist
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Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something- and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do – then most...

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Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.

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Psychiatry
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We achieve ”active” mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not...

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Hospitals
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

—Thomas Szasz

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CognitionCouragePsychiatry
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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 learning to love the analyst...

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American Psychologist
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In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

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Madness
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Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon...

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Psychiatry
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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 Szasz

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Body
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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life’s currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat...

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Insecurity
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person’s self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient’s cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his...

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Psychoanalysis
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

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American Psychologist
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