The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.Thomas Szasz
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in controlof our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.
Thomas Szasz
Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.
Thomas Szasz
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
Thomas Szasz
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz
Since the Freudian revolution, and especially since the Second World War, the secret formula has been this If you want to debase what a person is doing, call his act psychopathological and call him mentally ill if you want to exalt what a person is
Thomas Szasz
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