Asylums Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Play, Paris, Political

  Source: collider.com

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• There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

  Samuel Butler

  Drinking, Teetotalers, Should

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• Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sports, Suicide, Fashion

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

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• Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Jobs, Common Decency, Australia

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Simple, Achievement, Insane

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• I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Germany, Would Be, Deportation

  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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• Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

  Laurence Stallings

  Hollywood, Inmates

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• 'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

  Jools Holland

  Gone, Television, Firsts

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• We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be sent back. That is, from our perspective, completely clear. On the other hand, we should scrutinize the now completely outdated principle that only the migrants' first country of arrival should be burdened with their registration as well as with the process of sorting out who has the right to asylum and who needs to be deported.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Hands, Perspective

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is ridiculous to believe that Greece might be taking in one million migrants, registering them, then giving refuge to those who have a right to asylum and sending everyone back that does not. Greece is not doing that. We can blame the Greeks for that, but at the same time we should change the Dublin Regulation. When we insist on this unrealistic procedure, it means nothing more than that we are defending Dublin while renouncing Schengen.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Believe, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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 message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Decision, Needs, Messages

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• The immigration bill - the new immigration bill - [Bill Clinton] has stripped the courts, which Congress can do under the leadership of the president, so that people who had a right to asylum or to petition - for asylum who were legal residents are now unable to go through because that part of the bill has been taken out.

  Nat Hentoff

  Taken, People, President

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• There are even a few [people] who still honestly believe I sold information to [Vladimir] Putin - like personally, in exchange for asylum. And this is after the Senate Intelligence Committee chair, who gets to read the NSA's reporting on my activities every morning, said all of these conspiracies are delusional.

  Edward Snowden

  Morning, Believe, Nsa

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• If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.

  Joseph Stalin

  United States, Would Be, Deportation

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• We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Nature, Terror

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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• If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

  Adolf Hitler

  Artist, Blue, Color

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