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| Thomas Szasz | | Date Created: Oct 01, 2006, 10:38 PM |
 Quotes by 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.
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.
If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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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