"When a person can no longer laugh at……" — Thomas Szasz

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

— 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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The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. — Desi Arnaz
It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,… — David Bailey
A drink a day keeps the shrink away. — Edward Abbey
Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up… — Roseanne Barr
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me… — James M. Barrie
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to… — Dave Barry
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. — John Barrymore
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. — James Beard
I am a drinker with writing problems. — Brendan Behan
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? — Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. — Robert Benchley

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