Asylums Quotes (page 2)

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• memories
• door
• hand

Say to a blind man, you’re free, open the door that was separating him from the world, Go, you are free, we tell him once more, and he does not go, he has remained motionless there in the middle of the road, he and the others, they are terrified, they do not know where to go, the fact is that there is no comparison between living in a rational labyrinth, which is, by definition, a mental asylum and venturing forth, without a guiding hand or a dog-leash, into the demented labyrinth of the... Jose Saramago

• moon
• men
• earth

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

• insanity
• people
• crazy

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. Colin Mochrie

• friends
• friend
• confidence

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

• insanity
• life
• country

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

• asylum
• mostly
• optimization

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis

• children
• home
• time

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. Edward W. Howe

• words
• word
• senses

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

• positive
• thinking
• people

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions. Robin Wright Penn

• religious
• world
• lunatic asylums

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Thomas Paine

• running
• country
• insanity

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. Robert Welch

• insanity
• having
• did

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

• expectation
• people
• responsibility

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

• health
• insanity
• happen

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! Michael Caine

• empty
• would be
• emptiness

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. George Bernard Shaw