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We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Asylum Course Detention Jury Most Opposed Our Society Spoke Stood Trial Unlimited Up Vulnerable Well Without

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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

Topics: Asylum Civilisation Colony Disprove Dumping Either Get Ground Lunatic My Own Own Planet Prove Rid Superior Undesirable Unfit Used View You

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

~Colin Mochrie

Topics: Advertise Asylum Bad Bad Taste Come Crazy Down Going Insane Many People Taste Think

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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

~D. B. Sweeney

Topics: Anybody Asylum Character Help Know Me Medical Patience Pretending Really Say Says Seek Should Stuff Then Who You

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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

Topics: Around Asylum Cannot Care Child Children Danger Every Face Give Goes Heart Out Poverty Should Situation States Sustainable Terrible Those Truly United United States Who World Would

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I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Asylum Bigots Come Deal Entry Free Illegal Issue Politics Right-Wing Run System Working

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

~David Blunkett

Topics: Asylum Cause Community Deep Economic Host Migration Resentment Route Used Where

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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

Topics: Asylum Badge Become Being Decide Engage Experience Feels Fully Having Human Human Experience Inmate Insane Like Melodrama Pick Sometimes Spiritual Thoroughly Up Visitor Want Whether World You Your

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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

~E. W. Howe

Topics: Asylum Away Children Filled Home Insane Mothers Part Schools Take Time Were Would

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

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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