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Our asylum system is sick.
— Romano L. Mazzoli
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
— Samuel Butler
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
— Everett Dirksen
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
— Michael Howard
Normal people don't wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don't disinherit their sons because they didn't get the child they wanted.
— Leigh Bardugo
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.
— Stephen King
All boys belong in insane asylums.
— Brandon Mull
Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.
— Cassandra Clare
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.
— Olivia Wilde
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
— James Bryant Conant
68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share.
— Roberto Bolano
Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
— Laurence Stallings
Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!
— Stephen Richards
I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.
— Marilyn French
I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.
— John Major
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
— Thomas Paine
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.
— Nellie Bly
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Mark Twain
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
— Carl Jung
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
— Erving Goffman
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
— Theodore Parker
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
— G.K. Chesterton
Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
— Herman Melville
The world's most brilliant confabulators are in asylums.
— Stephen King
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.
— Lin Yutang
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
— Virginia Woolf
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
— Sophie Swetchine
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
— Margaret Atwood
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
— Antonin Artaud
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
— E.W. Howe
This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
— George Bernard Shaw
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.
— Herman Wouk
The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.
— Richard A. Rowland
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.
— Justine Larbalestier
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
— Mandell Creighton
I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.
— Irakli Okruashvili
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
— Antonio Lobo Antunes
America is a lunatic asylum.
— Ezra Pound