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Tag Name "Asylums" (18)

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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
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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
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It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Sun Ra
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Antonin Artaud
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E. W. Howe
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The only true non-conformists are in the asylums the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
Herman Wouk
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Mark Twain
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The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.
Mother Jones
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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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.
Stephen King
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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.
Theodore Parker
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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
Will Rogers
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All boys belong in insane asylums.
Brandon Mull
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
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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