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Richard McKenna
“We [the military personnel here] serve the flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death. It is for that purpose that the American people maintain us. Any one of us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage, is a thief of the food he eats and a trespasser of the bunk in which he lies down to sleep.”
Richard McKenna , The Sand Pebbles

Thomas Szasz
“Although both home and mental illness are complex, modern ideas, we have fallen into the habit of using phrases such as "housing the homeless" and "treating the mentally ill" as if we knew what counts as housing a homeless person or what it means to treat mental illness. But we do not. We have deceived ourselves that having a home and being mentally healthy are our natural conditions, and that we become homeless or mentally ill as a result of "losing" our homes or our minds. The opposite is the case. We are born without a home and without reason, and have to exert ourselves and are fortunate if we succeed in building a secure home and a sound mind.”
Thomas Stephen Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”
Thomas Szasz

Albert Jay Nock
“Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. “Government money,” of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.”
Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

Thomas Szasz
“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”
Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Second Sin

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