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As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person—so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.

— Thomas Szasz Anti-Freud (1990)

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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

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In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

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Since this is the age of science, not religion, psychiatrists are our rabbis, heroin is our pork, and the addict is the unclean person.

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The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

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