Quotes by : Thomas Szasz

Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it....

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation....

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as....

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned....

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.....

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as....

Although both home and mental illness are complex, modern ideas, we have fallen into the habit of using....

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive....

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without....

The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should if it prevents....