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.--
More Quotes from Thomas Szasz:
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.Thomas Szasz
Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.
Thomas Szasz
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Thomas Szasz
The many faces of intimacy the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
Thomas Szasz
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Thomas Szasz
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