"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite……" — Thomas Szasz
"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."
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Thomas Szasz
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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 Bite Quotes
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Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
— Chuck Berry
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I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it…
— Emily Blunt
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on…
— Ray Bradbury
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I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it…
— Kirk Cameron
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!
— George III
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.…
— Bruce Lee
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It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow…
— John Vanbiesbrouck
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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or…
— Denis Waitley
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff…
— Cary Middlecoff
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed…
— Pablo Neruda
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