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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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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. – 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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Nature
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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. – Robert Frost

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