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
The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Statistics tell us that of the 500,000 people who arrived, those who are granted political asylum are more or less 10 percent.… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“Prison and the asylums had made me worse, not better. I had truly become a hostage of my past, condemned by my… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums,… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies… — James Martineau 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
Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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