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Thomas Szasz

"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."

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"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
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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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"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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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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"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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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
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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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"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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"The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are."
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