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
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
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
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we… — Mark Twain 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
Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, "You know what will save the… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after… — Julian Assange 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
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked. Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra--it was pretty cool." "All boys belong… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in… — Everett Dirksen Copy Share Image
Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece… — Geert Wilders 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
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
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
If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever… — Mia Farrow 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
Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign],… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,… — Philippe Pinel Copy Share Image
We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
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