Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum."
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country."
Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"America is a lunatic asylum."
Stephen King
Author
"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Earth is the insane asylum of the universe."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them."
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"The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want."
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"There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death."
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"According to our constitution, political emigres have the right to reside on our territory. We accord them the right of asylum, the same as the United States accords the right of asylum to political emigres."
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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."
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"So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses."
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"Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions."
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"There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out."
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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."
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"We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature."
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"This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets."
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"Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum."
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"When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum."
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"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum."
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