Asylums Quote by Mandell Creighton Download Open image “The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.” — Mandell Creighton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asylums Education Lunatic Lunatic asylums Men Mischief University Young Young man Young men
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea.… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
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.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
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… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image