Politics and Society
- Asylum (antiquity), places of refuge in ancient Greece and Rome
- Right of asylum or political asylum
- Church asylum or sanctuary, a right to be safe from arrest in the sanctuary of a church or temple
- Insane asylum, an obsolete type of institution for housing those deemed "insane"
- Orphan asylum or orphanage, an institution dedicated to caring for orphans
- Benevolent Asylum, a 19th-century Australian institution for housing the destitute
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“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
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