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Letter "T" » Thomas S. Szasz Quotes
«Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
boredom, serenity, waste, waste of time
«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.»
«Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.--»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| Keywords:
deprive, deprives, oxygen, self-respecting, self respect
«A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
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Happiness
| Keywords:
adults, attributed, attributing, formerly, imaginary, imaginary being, The Dead
«Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
desirable, fundamental, human right, interfere, morally, Moral right, suicide
«No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| Keywords:
awaited, awaits, biological, concept, illness, obscure, obvious
«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.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Men,
Punishment,
Reward
| Keywords:
behaving, defined, justifying, punished, rewarded
«The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -known to medical science is work.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| Keywords:
analgesic, antibiotic, antibiotics, closest, in short, medical, narcotic, narcotics, panacea, soporific, stimulant, stimulants, to a great extent, tranquilizer, tranquilizers
«Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
collective, democratic, distinctions, guilt, odious, unfashionable
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