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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Category: Boredom Author: Thomas Szasz
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In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
Category: Children Author: Thomas Szasz
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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
Category: Conformity Author: Thomas Szasz
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All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
Category: Drugs Author: Thomas Szasz
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Category: Excuses Author: Thomas Szasz
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Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Category: Happiness Author: Thomas Szasz
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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.
Category: Justice Author: Thomas Szasz
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Category: Learning Author: Thomas Szasz
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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.
Category: Medical Subjects Author: Thomas Szasz
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Category: Psychology Author: Thomas Szasz
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Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can "do" drugs, "have" sex, "make" babies, and "get" money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?
Category: Responsibility Author: Thomas Szasz
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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.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Thomas Szasz
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
Category: Sex Author: Thomas Szasz
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