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- The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
- I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends…
- All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy…
- I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the…
More Asylum Quotes
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on… — 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… — Michael Caine
- I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Charles Schumer
- 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
- 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… — 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… — Samuel Adams