Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a...
THOMAS SZASZ Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when sci...
THOMAS SZASZ Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.
THOMAS SZASZ The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not throu...
THOMAS SZASZ Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usuall...
THOMAS SZASZ The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibi...
THOMAS SZASZ Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. T...
THOMAS SZASZ Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of mode...
THOMAS SZASZ A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...
THOMAS SZASZ Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of makin...
THOMAS SZASZ Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is ...
THOMAS SZASZ Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each cond...
THOMAS SZASZ If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
THOMAS SZASZ People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something t...
THOMAS SZASZ It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are c...
THOMAS SZASZ Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about pers...
THOMAS SZASZ Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is so...
THOMAS SZASZ The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not for...
THOMAS SZASZ When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
THOMAS SZASZ The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
THOMAS SZASZ No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition ...
THOMAS SZASZ We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their manageme...
THOMAS SZASZ If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why l...
THOMAS SZASZ Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
THOMAS SZASZ Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like pr...
THOMAS SZASZ Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vo...
THOMAS SZASZ Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken o...
THOMAS SZASZ Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often...
THOMAS SZASZ Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, ac...
THOMAS SZASZ He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect l...
THOMAS SZASZ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not for...
THOMAS SZASZ Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when scien...
THOMAS SZASZ In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
THOMAS SZASZ Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the de...
THOMAS SZASZ Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
THOMAS SZASZ There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
THOMAS SZASZ No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological ...
THOMAS SZASZ Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attr...
THOMAS SZASZ Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation...
THOMAS SZASZ The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in...
THOMAS SZASZ Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered t...
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. ...
THOMAS SZASZ People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not s...
THOMAS SZASZ Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, ac...
THOMAS SZASZ Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
THOMAS SZASZ The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, ...
THOMAS SZASZ People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...
THOMAS SZASZ Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it ca...
THOMAS SZASZ The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are c...
THOMAS SZASZ In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as...
THOMAS SZASZ Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to rende...
THOMAS SZASZ Institutions, no less than persons, may need to be socialized.
THOMAS SZASZ In a secular democracy, a person is supposed to be punished only when he breaks the law; never becau...
THOMAS SZASZ 'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness,...
THOMAS SZASZ There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
THOMAS SZASZ In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
THOMAS SZASZ Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-estee...
THOMAS SZASZ The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much a...
THOMAS SZASZ If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia
THOMAS SZASZ The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
THOMAS SZASZ It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, y...
THOMAS SZASZ Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
THOMAS SZASZ A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
THOMAS SZASZ People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...
THOMAS SZASZ Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise conc...
THOMAS SZASZ When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..
THOMAS SZASZ Men often have grievances against prominent and powerful persons. Historically, the grievances of th...
THOMAS SZASZ People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something o...
THOMAS S. SZASZ A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
THOMAS S. SZASZ The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not for...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why m...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
THOMAS S. SZASZ Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
THOMAS S. SZASZ No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological conditio...
THOMAS S. SZASZ The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it pr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means...
THOMAS S. SZASZ In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients.
THOMAS S. SZASZ Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when scien...
THOMAS S. SZASZ The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibi...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why me...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about pers...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his b...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. T...
THOMAS S. SZASZ Although we may not know it, we have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This...
THOMAS S. SZASZ When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON