Asylums Quotes

Asylums Quote of the day

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

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

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

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

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

America is a lunatic asylum.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

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

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.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

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

When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them moved into suburbia, and started writing postcards to the FCC.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

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

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

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

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.

The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.

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 nastinesses.

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

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government.

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

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

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

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

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

All boys belong in insane asylums.

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

Our asylum system is sick.

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

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

This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.