I Had, Toward The Last, Been Shut Off From All Visitors, And So When The Lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, Came And Told Me That Friends Of Mine Were Willing To Take Charge Of Me If I Would Rather Be With Them Than In The Asylum, I Was Only Too Glad To Give My Consent
I Always Had A Desire To Know Asylum Life More Thoroughly - A Desire To Be Convinced That The Most Helpless Of God's Creatures, The Insane, Were Cared For Kindly And Properly.
The Insane Asylum On Blackwell’s Island Is A Human Rat-trap. It Is Easy To Get In, But Once There It Is Impossible To Get Out.
Lawsuits Generally Originate With The Obstinate And The Ignorant, But They Do Not End With Them; And That Lawyer Was Right Who Left All His Money To The Support Of An Asylum For Fools And Lunatics, Saying That From Such He Got It, And To Such He Would Bequeath It.
I Am Certain That A Sewing Machine Would Relieve As Much Human Suffering As A Hundred Lunatic Asylums, And Possibly A Good Deal More.
I Would Be Happy To Accept Asylum, Political Asylum, In India — A Nation I Love. In Return, I Will Bring Mayawati A Range Of The Finest British Footwear.
Here We Have A Case, The Swedish Case, Where I Have Never Been Charged With A Crime, Where I Have Already Been Cleared [by The Stockholm Prosecutor] And Found To Be Innocent, Where The Woman Herself Said That The Police Made It Up, Where The United Nations Formally Said The Whole Thing Is Illegal, Where The State Of Ecuador Also Investigated And Found That I Should Be Given Asylum. Those Are The Facts, But What Is The Rhetoric?
So Society Has Strangled In Its Asylums All Those It Wanted To Get Rid Of Or Protect Itself From, Because They Refused To Become Its Accomplices In Certain Great Nastinesses.
Asylums Are Nothing More Than Gardens Of Human Cabbages, Of Miserable, Grotesque, Repugnant Human Beings Watered With The Fertilizer Of Injections.
