{"author":"Thomas Szasz","author_id":"Thomas+Szasz","total_quotes":65,"quotes":[{"text":"If you talk to God  you are praying  if God talks to you  you have schizophrenia.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["humorous"],"id":19788,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"If you talk to God  you are praying  if God talks to you  you have schizophrenia.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["humorous"],"id":22297,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["humor","inspirational"],"id":46519,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"The pressure to reduce health care costs is aimed only at the treatment of real diseases. There is no pressure to reduce the costs of treating fictitious diseases. On the contrary, there is pressure to define ever more types of undesirable behaviors as mental disorders or addictions and to spend ever more tax dollars on developing new psychiatric diagnoses and facilities for storing and treating the victims of such diseases, whose members now include alcoholics, drug abusers, smokers, overeaters, self-starvers, gamblers, etc.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["health-care","health-care-reform","mental-illness"],"id":72139,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, and thus confronts them with the possibility of insignificance.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["liberty","responsibility"],"id":82436,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["communication","listening","understanding"],"id":82946,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"If you talk to God  you are praying  if God talks to you  you have schizophrenia.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["humorous"],"id":98554,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"If you talk to God  you are praying  if God talks to you  you have schizophrenia.","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["psychiatry"],"id":104573,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["children","inspirational","parenting"],"id":105765,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"},{"text":"Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling 'primitive' (since this renders us 'modern' without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...","author":"Thomas Szasz","tags":["arrogance-of-the-modern","history"],"id":111602,"author_id":"Thomas+Szasz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":65,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}