Asylums Quotes - Page 8

• 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

  Sleep, Writing, Fcc

  Source: afka.net

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• Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

  Julian Assange

  Police, Ecuador, Facts

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• 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

  House, Free Spirit, Patterns

  Herman Wouk (1970). “This is my God: the Jewish way of life”, Touchstone

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• Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

  James Lee Burke

  Air, Louisiana, Fresh Air

  James Lee Burke (2007). “Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Garden, People, Naked

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library

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• Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lunatic Asylums, World, Charm

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2070, Simon and Schuster

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• All boys belong in insane asylums.

  Brandon Mull

  Boys, Insane, Insane Asylum

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• We did just leave an insane asylum,” Hi agreed. “For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.

  Kathy Reichs

  Night, Dancing, Insane

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• Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We're inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it's your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass... and we are you.

  Grant Morrison

  Dream, Thinking, Glasses

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• And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Numbers, Europe, Migrants

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lunatic Asylums, Used, Planets

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

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Humanity, Liberty, Suits

  "Martin's History of France : The Decline of the French Monarchy" by Henri Martin, Vol. II, (p. 418), 1866.

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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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• When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Nature, Men

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Giving, Romance

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

  Theodore Parker

  Heart, Faces, Neglect

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.71

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• 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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Support, Ignorant, Fool

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• This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, Used, Planets

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christianity, Made

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1309, Library of Alexandria

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

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Garden, Cabbage, Miserable

  "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.

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• The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Pigs, Wings, Careers

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• What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Struggle, Two, People

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• 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

  Talking, America, People

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

  John F. Carlson

  Peace, Artist, Dancing

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• Our asylum system is sick.

  Romano L. Mazzoli

  Sick, Immigration

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