Best Thomas Szasz Quotations
- In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus… Adults
- Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one… Both
- Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them.… Autonomous
- Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right… Act
- It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could… Age
- Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. Doubt
- All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. Addiction
- The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are. People
- The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na�ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Forget
- 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… Act