#asylum

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

— Robert Welch

#country #insane #letting #patients #place

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#government #grants #hope #i #me

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#flourishes #lunatic #most #optimism #place

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

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

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

— A. E. Housman

#cambridge #every #find #i #sense

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 #country #drift #innocent #insane

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

#confided #confine #day #days #early

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

— Robin Wright Penn

#defending #i #i think #like #paparazzi

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

#asylum #built #dean #dreams #himself

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

— Johnny Rotton

#being #born #family #into #lightly