Asylum Quotes

119 quotes by 97 authors

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a… — Antonin Artaud
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil… — Samuel Adams
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 the… — Michael Caine
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation… — George Washington
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — Thomas Paine
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
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. But… — Ed Koch
Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get… — Charles Schumer
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have… — William Wells Brown
I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum — George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to… — Samuel Adams
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will… — Swami Vivekananda
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment,… — Ken Bates
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both… — Robert Baden-Powell
America is an insane asylum run by the inmates. — Lester Roloff
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of… — George Washington
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to… — George Washington
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde

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