Thomas Szasz Famous Quotes
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is."
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates."
"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."
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
Thomas Szasz Quotations
"Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself."
John Harold
Will We're going to steal a ship That ship Jack Commandeer. We're going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term.
Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
"Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way."
Real Live Preacher
"He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
Richard Willard Armour
The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore
The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.
W Edward Brown
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
"You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That world is gone.'"
Peggy Noonan
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
Benjamin Franklin
"Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER."
Tecumseh