Quotes by : Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.

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

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people....

Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the....

If you talk to God you are praying if God talks to you you have schizophrenia.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic....

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

Men often have grievances against prominent and powerful persons. Historically, the grievances of the....

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....