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Thomas Szasz Quotes
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Famous Thomas Szasz Quotations
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Thomas Stephen Szasz ( born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. He is well known for his books, The Myth of Mental Illness (1960) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement which set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated
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- A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas Szasz »
- Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. Thomas Szasz »
- Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz »
- Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas Szasz »
- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas Szasz »
- Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. Thomas Szasz »
- People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. Thomas Szasz »
- The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz »
- Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. 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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