Quote of the day
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
Thomas Szasz
Born: April 15, 1920
Died: September 8, 2012 (aged 92)
Bio: Thomas Stephen Szasz was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and academic. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.
Known for:
- The Myth of Mental Illness (1961)
- Psychiatry: The Science of Lies (2008)
- The Manufacture of Madness (1970)
- The Medicalization of Everyday Life (2007)
- Coercion as Cure (2007)
Most used words:
Thomas Szasz Quotes