Asylums Quotes

131 Asylums quotes by 103 unique authors

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
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
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
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George
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
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
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
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. — Marquis de Lafayette
By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very… — Harry J. Anslinger
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled;… — Rod Liddle
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an… — Madame de Stael
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances,… — Philippe Pinel
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay… — Sun Ra
I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, "You know what will save the world? You're holding… — Jack Handey
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the… — Mark Twain
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in… — Paulo Coelho
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane… — George Bernard Shaw

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