Asylums Quotes
131 Asylums quotes by 103 unique authors
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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out…
— Mark Twain
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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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I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
— Werner Herzog
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I do not oppose the insane asylum — but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to…
— Eugene V. Debs
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see…
— Arthur Miller
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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 don't have the…
— Ric Ocasek
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I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
— Robert De Niro
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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.
— David Lloyd George
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure…
— Roberto Bolano
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In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you…
— Edouard Manet
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The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.
— Unknown Author
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If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our…
— Alfred Korzybski
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Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum…
— Tony Abbott
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Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of…
— Havelock Ellis
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May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole…
— Joseph Warren
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We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic…
— Robert McKee
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In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II…
— Kelly Miller
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To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
— Michael Shurtleff
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