Who should the quote "the lunatics are running the asylum" be attributed to?
or the other version "the lunatics have have taken over the asylum"
whichever the original is
ORIGINALLY
I think it should be attributed for everyone. We are all a little crazy in our own way and we decide the fate of the world.
George bush and New Labour.
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The politically correct brigade who insist on bringing out even more ludicrous laws, advice etc to further control our lives and treat us all like idiots.
For example, the bags of peanuts that have warnings that they might contain nuts! The take away coffee cups that warn you that they might contain hot coffee! Or the local council in Devon that has just put up a sign on the beach warning that the tide can come in!
How stupid do these people think we are or is it that they are really the thick ones?
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JACK NICHOLSON.. HERE’S JOHNNY
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I think it should be attributed for everyone. We are all a little crazy in our own way and we decide the fate of the world.
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every and anyone elected to political office in today’s mad World.!
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Richard Rowland (1881 – 1947)
"The lunatics have taken over the asylum"
Comment when United Artists was taken over by Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks and Griffith. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell "The Filmgoer’s Book of Quotes"
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New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations