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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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. – 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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