Wisdom is in the insane asylums. The end is in the…

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