Thomas Szasz Quotes

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do.

I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.