Thomas SzaszThinkers

Adolescence is a group nowadays who, because they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money, take adulthood to be synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty, thus making it little surprise that they remain adolescents.

Analogy is a conceptual instrument much as the microscope and the telescope are optical instruments, allowing us to see ideas emotionally too close or too far for us to perceive it.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time... serenity, that nothing is.

Disease is a concept that is fast replacing the concept of responsibility.

Expert testimony is mendacity masquerading as medicine in the psychiatric context.

The Free market is the right held by every competent adult to trade in goods and services.

A Heroin is, when treated with methadone, like treating an addiction to scotch with bourbon.

Masturbation is the primary sexual activity of mankind which, in the nineteenth century was a disease, and in the twentieth, a cure.

Medicine is only authoritative insofar as it draws exclusively upon medical science. Cellular pathology alone constitutes medical illness.

The Mental hospital is a cemetery for the living dead.