Asylums Quotes

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

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

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

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

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.

Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.

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.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

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 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.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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