Asylums Quotes · Page 2

America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

— Lester Roloff

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

— Richard A. Rowland

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

— James L. Petigru

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

— Thomas Paine

“Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

— Laurence Stallings

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

— Voltaire

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

According to our constitution, political emigres have the right to reside on our territory. We accord them the right of asylum, the…

— Joseph Stalin

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

— Chris Cleave

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can…

— Peter Kreeft

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled…

— E. W. Howe

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I…

— Ric Ocasek

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We…

— Herman Wouk

I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from…

— Edwidge Danticat

Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is…

— Victoria Woodhull

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

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who…

— Jeremy Bentham

And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back…

— Paolo Gentiloni

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

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

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

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

I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that…

— Jean Cocteau

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

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits… Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises…

— John Adams

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

— Antonin Artaud

Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of…

— Malcolm Fraser

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been…

— Julian Assange

The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as…

— Werner Herzog

It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,…

— Paolo Gentiloni

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

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

— John F. Carlson

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

— Herman Melville

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me

— Nicki Minaj