Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — Virginia Woolf
America is an insane asylum run by the inmates. — Lester Roloff
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. — Jane Fonda
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. — Erving Goffman
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. — Ray Bradbury
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. — Herman Melville
Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R. D. Lang
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George
Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home. — Corinne Bailey Rae
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong. — George Washington
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom. — J. G. Ballard
Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. — Unknown Author
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. — Hunter S. Thompson
Short Asylum Quotes
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. — Voltaire
Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito. — Sherman Alexie
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — James L. Petigru
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. — A. E. Housman
Earth is the insane asylum of the universe. — Albert Einstein
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics. — Voltaire
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. — Robert Welch
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. — Werner Herzog
Asylum Image Quotes
Insane Asylum Quotes
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society. — Mother Jones
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. — Deepak Chopra
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. — E. W. Howe
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted. — Michael Shurtleff
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. — Colin Mochrie
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis. — Carl Jung
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. — Arthur Miller
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. — Madeleine L'Engle
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. — Nellie Bly
COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID. — Nellie Bly
Lunatic Asylums Quotes
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum. — George Bernard Shaw
In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal. — Edouard Manet
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason. — Philippe Pinel
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum. — Robert Baden-Powell
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum — George Bernard Shaw
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. — Jeremy Bentham
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum. — H. L. Mencken
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. — Havelock Ellis
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Asylum Seekers Quotes
...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty. — Antonio Guterres
I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - these people are cockroaches and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what they do, they just do it, like cats miaow and dogs bark. — Mark Collett
Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent. — Julie Bishop
We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you. — Geert Wilders
Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers. — Geert Wilders
We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody. — Justine Larbalestier
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard
Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name. — Malcolm Fraser
Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts. — Tony Abbott
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. — Chris Cleave
Every American should read this post mortem on Afghanistan. And every American politician —Republican and Democrat — and every Pentagon panjandrum who supported this catastrophe should hang their heads in shame. We learned nothing from Vietnam. The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting different results. By this definition, the entire retinue of American leadership is insane. This observation answers the question What on earth are we doing in Ukraine? The inmates are running the asylum. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. — Samuel Adams
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. — Mike Royko
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in Russia, and White House spokesman Jay Carney appears flummoxed and wrong-footed as the mantle of free speech and liberty appears to pass from West to East. — Max Keiser
In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life. — Geert Wilders
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. — Diablo Cody
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. — Samuel Adams
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death. — William Wells Brown
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. — Stephen King
The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They make the other members of the society fearful. Every asylum in this nation is filled with poor souls who simply cannot stand lanolin, cellophane, plastic, television, and subdivisions. — John Kennedy Toole
Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. — Thomas Paine
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries. — Everett Dirksen
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