“People, especially liberals and psychiatrists, say that the two main causes of crime are mental illness and poverty. Insanity is therefore a defense in the criminal law. If we really believed that poverty caused crime, we would have a "poverty defense" as well, attorneys calling professors of economics to testify in court whether a particular defendant is guilty of theft or not by reason of poverty.”

— Thomas Szasz

The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary (1990)

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Hungarian psychiatrist 1920–2012

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