A Quote by Lester Roloff

America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

Lester Roloff

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Lester Roloff
June 28, 1914 - November 2, 1982

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Erving Goffman

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

Mark Twain

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

Nathaniel Branden

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Lennon

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Laurence Stallings

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.

Lin Yutang

I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

Eugene V. Debs

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

Michael Shurtleff

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Robert De Niro

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.