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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
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. -- Nellie Bly
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. -- George Bernard Shaw
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. -- Havelock Ellis
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. -- David Lloyd George
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. -- Thomas Paine
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. -- Colin Mochrie
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. -- Antonio Lobo Antunes
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. -- Robert De Niro
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum. -- H. L. Mencken
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. -- Mike Royko
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 -- George Bernard Shaw
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
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith. -- Bill Shuster
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. -- Samuel Adams
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. -- Kelly Miller
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. -- Arthur Miller
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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. -- Nellie Bly
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. -- Roberto Bolano
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. -- Christopher Hitchens
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate -- Nellie Bly
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. -- Antonin Artaud
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. -- Sun Ra
In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals. -- Thomas R. Insel
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. -- Ric Ocasek
All boys belong in insane asylums. -- Brandon Mull
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. -- Jane Fonda
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. -- Virginia Woolf
Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms. -- Cassandra Clare
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. -- Samuel Butler
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. -- Theodore Parker
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
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
Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked. Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra--it was pretty cool." "All boys belong in insane asylums," Kendra said. -- Brandon Mull
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
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
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. -- Mother Jones
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. -- Antonin Artaud
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. -- Will Rogers
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. -- Frank Zappa

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