"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.…" — Thomas Szasz
"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
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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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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 Expert Quotes
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
— Niels Bohr
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to…
— Edward de Bono
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Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've…
— Eric Braeden
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I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started…
— Jeff Bridges
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I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'
— Sarah Brightman
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I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
— Mika Brzezinski
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in…
— Steve Albini
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I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East.…
— Abdallah II
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My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about…
— David Carradine
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Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
— Hillary Clinton
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