A Quote by Mandell Creighton

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

Mandell Creighton

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Mandell Creighton
British - Author
July 5, 1843 - January 14, 1901

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

Soren Kierkegaard

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

George Bernard Shaw

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

Havelock Ellis

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

America is a lunatic asylum.

Ezra Pound

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

Robert McKee

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Werner Herzog

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

David Lloyd George

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

Carl Jung

You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.