Asylums Quotations

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

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 in an insane asylum.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

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 the company!

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

America is a lunatic asylum.

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.

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 that it would be the same for everyone.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.

The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.