Asylum Seeker

Famous quotes containing the words asylum and/or seeker:

“The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

“How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of the body to think!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)