"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.“

-Thomas Szasz

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

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"If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."

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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."

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