Thomas Szasz Quotes

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

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

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

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.