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Quotes from The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary — Thomas Szasz

1920–2012 United States

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Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous.

The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Szasz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.