"If he who breaks the law is not……" — Thomas Szasz
"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, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order."
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Thomas Szasz
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85 Quotes by Thomas Szasz
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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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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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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to…
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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