I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
Quotes about asylums (13 Quotes)
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.
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.
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Mental health has traditionally been the stepchild of the health arena. You wouldn't even find it in the public health arena it would be shunted off to asylums and then state institutions and then eventually community mental health centers. We always want to separate the brain from the body.
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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.
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.
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.
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