Thomas Szasz
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA GERMANY KENT BERTRAND RUSSELL SWAMI RAMDAS A man lives with an interest in life to crave for like of others for self-love only, but if he raves... ANUJ SOMANY I got this month's delivery bill today - you're practically living off pastries!"APRIL ADAMS CLARE BOOTHE LUCE There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When ... RICHARD RYBOLT TARIQ RAMADAN TED HUGHES LJUPKA CVETANOVA A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be ca... JAMES LARKIN By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the li... FRANK MOORE COLBY THOMAS MERTON THICH NHAT HANH VIKTOR E. FRANKL TED NUGENT GERMANY KENT CLARE BOOTHE LUCE It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that coope... TOM G. 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Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. 
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist ide... 
Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the... 
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. 
Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons... 
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy whic... 
In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarch... 
The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes... 
The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to ... 
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h... 
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attrib... 
When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence... 
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are
self-government, reason, and conscienc... 
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of ... 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solit... 
Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles... 
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's e... 
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards in... 
T.S. Eliot said to me 'There’s only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from s... 
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. 
Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing ... 
failures are not your own self. See to it that you are free from them. Only when you can relinquish ... 
By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to... 
It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow fa... 
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul... 
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul. 
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who... 
Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense. 
A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be... 
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he ha... 
The term spirit might have evolved in a mystical fashion, but in today’s civilized and thinking so... 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. 
The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the real... 
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, c... 
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by sel... 
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manife... 
The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-s... 
He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. ... 
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. 
No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to dea... 
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not full... 
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to rende... 
There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. A... 
We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so a... 
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love. 
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie... 
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev... 
Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th... 
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. 
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed. 
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... 
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. 
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio... 
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ... 
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. 
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. 
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w... 
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. 
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. 
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. 
I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work. 
Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player. 
My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro... 
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. 
I always get more applause than votes. 
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara... 
I walk where I choose to walk. 
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. 
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. 