Anxiety is the unwillingness to play even when you know the odds are for you. Courage is the willingness to play even when you know the odds are agai… - Thomas Szasz

What had been drapetomania became depression. ... Modern man runs away from a life that seems to him a kind of slavery.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

Our adversaries are not demons, witches, fate, or mental illness. We have no enemy whom we can fight, exorcise, or dispel by "cure." What we do have are problems in living — whether these be biologic, economic, political, or sociopsychological. In this essay I was concerned only with problems belonging in the last mentioned category, and within this group mainly with those pertaining to moral values. The field to which modern psychiatry addresses itself is vast, and I made no effort to encompass it all. My argument was limited to the proposition that mental illness is a myth, whose function it is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.