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> [If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/if-nevertheless-textbooks-of-pharmacology-legitimately-contain-a/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

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> [All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/all-drugs-of-any-interest-to-any-moderately-intelligent-person-in/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

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> [The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-disease-concept-of-homosexuality-as-with-the-disease-concept-of/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

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## Other authors on Drug addict

## More by Thomas Szasz

> [Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/institutional-psychiatry-is-a-continuation-of-the-inquisition-all/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/by-pretending-that-convention-is-nature-that-disobeying-a-personal/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/we-shall-therefore-compare-the-concept-of-homosexuality-as-heresy/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-basic-ingredients-of-psychotherapy-are-religion-rhetoric-and/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/for-jews-the-messiah-has-never-come-for-christians-he-has-come-but/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/i-submit-that-the-traditional-definition-of-psychiatry-which-is-still/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/i-believe-the-time-has-come-to-acknowledge-that-the-practice-of/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/he-who-does-not-accept-and-respect-those-who-want-to-reject-life-does/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-passion-to-interpret-as-madness-that-with-which-we-disagree-seems/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/we-should-pledge-ourselves-to-the-proposition-that-the-irresponsible/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/a-child-becomes-an-adult-when-he-realizes-that-he-has-a-right-not/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/we-have-in-our-day-witnessed-the-birth-of-the-therapeutic-state-this/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-homosexual-is-a-scapegoat-who-evokes-no-sympathy-hence-he-can/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/people-dream-of-making-the-virtuous-powerful-so-they-can-depend-upon/)

[Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/)

> [The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-greatest-analgesic-soporific-stimulant-tranquilizer-narcotic-and/)

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