Asylums Quote by Nellie Bly

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

— Erving Goffman

People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a…

— Antony Starr

“If they didn’t want the patients at the Undisclosed Ffirth Asylum command center slash patient processing facility to feel like prisoners, they were doing…

— David Wong

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

— Jane Fonda

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for…

— Antonio Gramsci

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

— Robert W. Welch, Jr

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all.

— Mooji

“The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.”

— George Herman

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't…

— Diana Vreeland

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all…

— Stephen King

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn