#us

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. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

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

#age #aim #apparent #between #childhood

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#business #global #most #profit

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. ↗

— George Szell

#feel #heart #music #must #think

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #especially #everyone #experiences #good

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#hermit #i #into #like #little

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. ↗

— Ice T

#anybody #art #art form #back #because

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#bit #care #children #cooking #doing

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop. ↗

— Ice T

#breaks #core #dj #does #get