Asylums Quotes

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.

America is a lunatic asylum.

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

According to our constitution, political emigres have the right to reside on our territory. We accord them the right of asylum, the same as the United States accords the right of asylum to political emigres.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government.

All boys belong in insane asylums.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

Our asylum system is sick.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.