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Thomas Szasz

"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."

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"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."

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"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."
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"Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions."
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"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
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"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
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"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage."
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"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."
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