Asylums Quotes (5 quotes)

“Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

tags: asylums, mad, offices, sane

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“In that hospital they don't bury the dead, they keep them in rooms and talk to them.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

tags: asylums, ptsd

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“Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I’m now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!”
― Stephen Richards, Insanity: My Mad Life

tags: asylums, charles-bronson, insanity, madness, prisoner

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“...These mothers had made the dangerous journey to America with their children because they knew that the danger of staying in their home country was even worse. They have the legal right to seek asylum, but when they arrive, we call them criminals. We treat them like criminals. That is not the sign of a civil society, nor is it a sign of compassion.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

tags: asylums, immigration

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