The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity. - Thomas Szasz

The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.