Asylums Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asylums Doe Flight Happy home Home Philosophy of life Safe Tyranny
“Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Family and home are the bedrock of everything we've gone on to do. It's out base camp. Our refugee. Our only place in the… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
“Home isn't a safe place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying the same.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.” — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“the refugees’ safety was guaranteed, though most of them regarded Surinam as no more than a way station to somewhere else and left as… — Bernard Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
“Washington is the only lunatic asylum in the world run by its own inmates.” — W. Lee O'Daniel Copy Share Image
“My brothers are retro-refugees in the new exile of the asylum-seekers' hostel.” — Lidija Dimkovska Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the loneliest place is not being far from home, but being surrounded by people who can't see beyond their own borders.” — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
“Your home is in disarray. How you got there is the reason for the mess, but not the reason for staying in it.” — Bonnie Borromeo Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul. Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be;… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the… — Herman Melville Copy Share
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this… — Herman Melville Copy Share
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when-There she blows!-the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to… — Herman Melville Copy Share
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 if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After… — Ed Koch Copy Share
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share
If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum in Canada or Australia or England, but I didn't want to leave the United States, because for better or worse I'm an American, and this is my land; so I decided to fight it out on… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
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