Quote by Thomas Szasz
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distin

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. – Thomas Szasz

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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. – Thomas Szasz

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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. – Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906

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No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. – Isaac Rosenfeld

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Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge. – Author Unknown

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