"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat……" — Thomas Szasz

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in… - Thomas Szasz

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined."

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85 Quotes by Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a…
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity;…
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and…
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so…
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is…
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his…
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling…
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and…
Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have…
Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a…
Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.
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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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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