Asylums Quotes

America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

— Lester Roloff

America is a lunatic asylum.

— Ezra Pound

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

— Richard A. Rowland

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

— Erving Goffman

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

— James Lee Burke

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

— Albert Einstein

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

— Mark Twain

Our asylum system is sick.

— Romano L. Mazzoli

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

— George Bernard Shaw

“flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.”

— Herman Melville

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

— John F. Carlson

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

— Irakli Okruashvili

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

— Jane Fonda

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

— David Lloyd George

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

— Ben Okri

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Julian Assange

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

The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who…

— Denis Diderot

There's nothing better than being in an asylum, if you're going to have a bunch of crazy people in an asylum, and…

— John Carpenter

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

“Normal people don’t wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don’t disinherit their sons because they didn’t get the child they…

— Leigh Bardugo

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

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct…

— Samuel Adams

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time…

— Paulo Coelho

Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you're tired…

— Bill Maher

After multiple trips to Paris and being accused of participating in 'heinous' activities in regard to the state, I found my Romanian…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women…

— Antonio Guterres

We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are…

— Geert Wilders

I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,…

— Philippe Pinel

Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we…

— Alexis Carrel

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would…

— Robert McKee

For people who must fear for their lives because of their religion or political convictions, the protection provided by Article 16a of…

— Horst Seehofer

I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not…

— Abraham Lincoln

I chose the name "Padded Room," because, when I'm in the booth, it would be the padded room. When I'm in the…

— Joe Budden

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

— Julian Assange

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

— Paolo Gentiloni

Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what…

— Jessica Lange

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

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to…

— Charles Darwin