Asylums Quotes - Page 6

• To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Funny, Humorous, Insane

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  Suffering, Machines, Lunatic Asylums

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.51, Anchor

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• ...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

  Carl Jung

  Nymphs, Greek, Insane

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• I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Community, Insanity

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insanity, Insane, World

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• ...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

  Antonio Guterres

  Children, Moving, People

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• Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Taken, Law, People

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• South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

  James L. Petigru

  War, Insane, Republic

  "Too large to be an asylum". Post and Courier, February 13, 2010.

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• The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Animal, Wind, Risk

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• Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Home, Writing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.116, Booklassic

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• 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

  Insane, Hollywood, Lunatic Asylums

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• I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

  Werner Herzog

  Lunatic Asylums, Should, Lunatic

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Tyrants, Europe

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.32, Penguin

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• Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

  Ben Okri

  Cases, Planets, Realms

  Ben Okri (2009). “Tales of Freedom”, p.90, Random House

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• 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. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

  Ric Ocasek

  People, Insanity, Insane

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• The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

  David Lloyd George

  Running, Political, Lunatic Asylums

  In Observer 8 Jan. 1933

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• In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally — it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.

  Edouard Manet

  Memories, Light, Shadow

  "Portrait of Manet by himself and his contemporaries". Book edited by Pierre Courthion, p. 98, 1960.

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oxford

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• The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four year old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Dream, Sex

  "12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

  Julian Baggini

  Eggs, Yesterday, Asylum Seekers

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• If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

  Romola Garai

  Keys, Hands, Actresses

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• If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity.

  Vincent de Paul

  Beautiful, Practice, House

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Children, Law

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

  Bobby Fischer

  Government, Political, Grants

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• Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Australia, People

  "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". Interview with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

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