"Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed.……" — Thomas Szasz
"Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished."
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85 Quotes by Thomas Szasz
Thomas Szasz has 85 quotes on this site.
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I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a…
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity;…
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I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so…
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is…
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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…
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling…
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Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and…
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have…
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Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a…
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Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
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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…
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More Abolished Quotes
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
— Brigitte Bardot
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
— Charles Darwin
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In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was…
— Carl Sagan
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
— Albert Einstein
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When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
— Norman Bethune
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The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force…
— Mao Zedong
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Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs…
— Vernon Howard
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