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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
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
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
