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

Other quotes by Thomas Szasz

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. – Thomas Szasz

Category:
Learning
Read Quote

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

Category:
Ridicule
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Justice & Law
category

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. – Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe

Category:
Justice & Law

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Justice & Law

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

Category:
Justice & Law

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

Category:
Justice & Law

Random Quotes

Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip – the thing to do. – Bruce Jenner

Category:
cool

All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how were brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. – Chaim Potok

Category:
Family

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. – Charles M. Schwab

Category:
Personality

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. – P. J. ORourke

Category:
Government