Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
According to our constitution, political emigres have the right to reside on our territory. We accord them the right of asylum, the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body,… — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image