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Danh ngôn của Thomas Szasz (Sứ mệnh: 5)

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.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.