"Insanity is the only sane reaction to an…" — Thomas Szasz

"Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society."

— Thomas Szasz

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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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North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation. — Richard Armitage
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses… — Emilie Autumn
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action… — James A. Baldwin
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to… — Honore de Balzac
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. — Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. — Ambrose Bierce
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. — Theodor Adorno
I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute. — Lewis Black

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