Thomas Szasz Quotes

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Thomas Szasz

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

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.

Thomas Szasz

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.

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.

Thomas Szasz

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Thomas Szasz