Quotes by Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

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It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passivel — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrins — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense. — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
Although both home and mental illness are complex, modern ideas, we have fallen into the habit of using phrases such as — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of libert — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the passion for envy — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of menta — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
The term 'deinstitutionalization' conceals some simple truths, namely, that old, unwanted persons, formerly housed in st — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
The pressure to reduce health care costs is aimed only at the treatment of real diseases. There is no pressure to reduce — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters. — Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted