"The way it is now, the asylums can……" — Mark Twain
"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 of building materials."
More Asylums Quotes
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know… — Antonin Artaud
- Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an… — Samuel Adams
- Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and… — Michael Caine
- I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part… — George Washington
- The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. — Thomas Paine
- This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of… — Thomas Paine
- The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to… — Ed Koch
- Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful.… — Charles Schumer
- This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of… — William Wells Brown
- I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum — George Bernard Shaw
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every… — Henry David Thoreau
- Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of… — Samuel Adams