"We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that……" — Thomas Szasz
"We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living."
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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 Irresponsible Quotes
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging,…
— Walter Benjamin
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
— Tony Blair
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will…
— Harry Browne
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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe…
— Conrad Burns
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To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage…
— Sophia Bush
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I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was…
— Dave Chappelle
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he…
— C J Cherryh
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
— Winston Churchill
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
— Alexander Berkman
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible…
— George Washington
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I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish…
— Tiger Woods
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