The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping…

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

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

— Christopher Brookmyre

If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against…

— Joseph Stalin

Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital…

— Ken Bates

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

— Albert Einstein

I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed…

— George Washington

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

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

— Steve Jobs

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

— Michael Howard

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

— Werner Herzog

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like…

— Michael Caine

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

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

— James L. Petigru

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

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

— George Bernard Shaw