Actions Quotes Logo
Quote Image

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement.

~ Thomas Szasz ~

Actions Quotes Logo
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people...

Show More
Picture of Thomas Szasz
Thomas SzaszCruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

More Thomas Szasz quotes

"

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe libe...

"

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless...

"

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion "I am sick" as ...

"

When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer is that we often attribute ba...