--- title: "14 Persons Quotes By Thomas Szasz" description: "14 Persons quotes by Thomas Szasz. Plus more from Thomas Szasz and more Persons sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e5/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_since-this-is-the-age-of-science-not-rel_734372.jpg" --- > [Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/since-this-is-the-age-of-science-not-religion-psychiatrists-are-our/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e5/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_since-this-is-the-age-of-science-not-rel_734372.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_all-drugs-of-any-interest-to-any-moderat_2211615.jpg) > [A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/a-person-cannot-make-another-happy-but-he-can-make-him-unhappy-this/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac9/thomas-szasz-3801_happiness_a-person-cannot-make-another-happy-but-h_2062547.jpg) > [Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/self-respect-is-to-the-soul-as-oxygen-is-to-the-body-deprive-a-person/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/thomas-szasz-3801_body_self-respect-is-to-the-soul-as-oxygen-is_2051119.jpg) > [The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-less-a-person-knows-about-the-workings-of-the-social-institutions/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/thomas-szasz-3801_becoming_the-less-a-person-knows-about-the-workin_1681811.jpg) > [Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/is-psychiatry-a-medical-enterprise-concerned-with-treating-diseases/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1c/thomas-szasz-3801_business_is-psychiatry-a-medical-enterprise-conce_681558.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/psychoanalysis-is-an-attempt-to-examine-a-person-s-self/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/940/thomas-szasz-3801_cooperation_psychoanalysis-is-an-attempt-to-examine_3211268.jpg) > [Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/suicide-is-a-fundamental-human-right-this-does-not-mean-that-it-is-2/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51c/thomas-szasz-3801_commit_suicide-is-a-fundamental-human-right-thi_3132003.jpg) > [The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-greeks-distinguished-between-good-and-bad-behavior-language-that/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/thomas-szasz-3801_bad-behavior_the-greeks-distinguished-between-good-an_2889207.jpg) > [As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/as-the-base-rhetorician-uses-language-to-increase-his-own-power-to/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe1/thomas-szasz-3801_authority_as-the-base-rhetorician-uses-language-to_1961787.jpg) > [Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/men-often-treat-others-worse-than-they-treat-themselves-but-they/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/thomas-szasz-3801_consideration_men-often-treat-others-worse-than-they-t_2939264.jpg) > [Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/addiction-obesity-starvation-anorexia-nervosa-are-political-problems/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/thomas-szasz-3801_addiction_addiction-obesity-starvation-anorexia-ne_655077.jpg) > [The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/the-two-greatest-enemies-of-the-individual-in-the-modern-world-are/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/thomas-szasz-3801_abuse_the-two-greatest-enemies-of-the-individu_1138108.jpg) > [When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/when-the-psychiatrist-approves-of-a-person-s-actions-he-judges-that/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/thomas-szasz-3801_action_when-the-psychiatrist-approves-of-a-pers_1082031.jpg) ## Other authors on Persons ## 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/) [Thomas Szasz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-szasz/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/persons/thomas-szasz/#itemlist", "name": "14 Persons Quotes By Thomas Szasz", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Szasz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/since-this-is-the-age-of-science-not-religion-psychiatrists-are-our/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e5/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_since-this-is-the-age-of-science-not-rel_734372.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e5/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_since-this-is-the-age-of-science-not-rel_734372.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e5/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_since-this-is-the-age-of-science-not-rel_734372.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the…” — Thomas Szasz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Szasz" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-szasz/all-drugs-of-any-interest-to-any-moderately-intelligent-person-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_all-drugs-of-any-interest-to-any-moderat_2211615.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_all-drugs-of-any-interest-to-any-moderat_2211615.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f6/thomas-szasz-3801_addict_all-drugs-of-any-interest-to-any-moderat_2211615.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.” — Thomas Szasz", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. 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