I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range…

— Julian Assange

The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.…

— Ed Koch

Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent. I mean…

— Matteo Salvini

Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As…

— Julian Assange

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

— James L. Petigru

This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some…

— William Wells Brown

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

— Franz Grillparzer

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane…

— Belle Boyd

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

— Jools Holland

We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back.…

— Paolo Gentiloni

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Werner Herzog

The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.

— Thomas Paine

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that…

— Nellie Bly

“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid…

— Antonin Artaud