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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 56933 |
| QUOTATION: | Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), U.S. psychiatrist. “Mental Hospitalization,” The Second Sin (1973). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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