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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, Through, Lunatic

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

Prove, Colony, Own

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Samuel Adams

Mankind, Religious, Contest

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum. Wes Craven

Doing, Rearranging, Curtains

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung

Lunatic, Extrovert, Would

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. Nellie Bly

Desire, Always, Thoroughly

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

Dean, Built, Old

I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila. Sukarno

Very, Reports, Unhappy

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

Caught, Going, About

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

Love, Failures, Slums

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra

Feels, Sometimes, Inmate

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in? Mandy Patinkin

Country, Chance, Refugees

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

Like, Born, Lightly

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. James L. Petigru

Small, Carolina, Large

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

Sane, Would, Empty

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

Religious, Lunatic, World

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

Most, Lunatic, Optimism

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation. Hillary Clinton

Least, United, Tell

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community. David Blunkett

Deep, Resentment, Route

My heart goes out to children around the world who face terrible poverty. But the United States cannot give asylum to every child in that situation. It would not be sustainable. But we should care for those who are truly in danger. Dan Lipinski

Danger, United, Sustainable

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

Could, Through, Which

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

Through, Country, Innocent

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

Bad, Think, Going

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. Bobby Fischer

Grants, Government, Me

Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal. Alexis Carrel

Normal, Development

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

Country, Patients, Whole

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