Asylums Quotes · Page 2

All boys belong in insane asylums.

— Brandon Mull

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

— John Major

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

— Voltaire

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

— Sadegh Hedayat

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Herman Melville

“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.”

— Hanif Kureishi

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for…

— Thomas R. Insel

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

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

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

— John Lydon

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

— Jools Holland

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

— Michael Howard

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

— Justine Larbalestier

I honestly don't hate asylum seekers - these people are cockroaches and they're doing what cockroaches do because cockroaches can't help what…

— Mark Collett

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth…

— George Bernard Shaw

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would…

— Robert McKee

I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of…

— Dorothea Dix

That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign],…

— Julian Assange

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after…

— Julian Assange

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of…

— Mark Twain

Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went…

— Anonymous

Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by…

— Julie Bishop

I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me…

— Peter Abelard

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively…

— Caleb Carr

...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but…

— C. D. Broad

Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive…

— Rod Liddle

3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to…

— Christopher Brookmyre

I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that…

— Jean Cocteau

I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body,…

— Harry J. Anslinger

Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me

— Nicki Minaj

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

— Voltaire

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

— Marquis de Lafayette

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

— Werner Herzog

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

— Anonymous

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

— Mandell Creighton