Asylums Quotes

131 Asylums quotes by 103 unique authors

...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims… — Antonio Guterres
Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one… — Victoria Woodhull
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. — Nellie Bly
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… — Nellie Bly
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… — Nellie Bly
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;… — Alain de Botton
Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me — Nicki Minaj
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than… — Antonin Artaud
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. — Colin Mochrie
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You… — Deepak Chopra
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is… — Charles Spurgeon
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum. — Carl Jung
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum. — H. L. Mencken
The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex… — Werner Herzog
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in… — Bill Shuster
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty,… — Peter Abelard
If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however,… — Vincent de Paul
The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They… — John Kennedy Toole
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. — Herman Melville
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process… — Charles Darwin
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic… — Henry Ward Beecher
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship… — Lin Yutang
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are… — Adolf Hitler
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to… — Vance Havner
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that… — Nellie Bly

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