Best Jailer Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

“The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.”

Prisoner Jailer

Book:Rocannon’s World

Source: Rocannon’s World

“A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed.”

Crime Employment Employee Prisoner Criminal Jailer Contract Employment Contract

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.”

Support Approach Bible Sympathy Captains Inhuman Clergymen Hale Jailer

Author:William Hull

“Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.”

Life Soul Life Is Prison Life Death Filthy Jailer

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.”

World War States United United States Cold Unions Soviet Cold War Soviet Union Policemen Jailer

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.”

States Helping Natural Existence Jail Jailer

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”

Love Heart Self Dark Conformity Anorexia Eating Disorder Dungeons Non Conformity Inexorable Jailer

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.”

Conscience Jailer

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.”

Thinking Should Process Talent Directors Filmmaking Jailer

Author:Gary Oldman

“Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.”

Years Sometimes Given Four Honour Four Years Sole Jailer

Author:Che Guevara

“A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!”

“As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.”

Years President Powerful Wonder Grace Example Capacity Forgiving Following Setting Settings Redemption Remarkable Imprisonment Nelson Jailer

Author:George H. W. Bush

“No leader or organization can achieve breakout growth until it treats, "we've always done it this way" as an opportunity to think anew rather than as a reason to stop thinking. Keep in mind, tradition should be a guide, not a jailer.”

Thinking Way Should Mind Reason Done Opportunity Growth Leader Achieve Tradition Organization Treats Guides Jailer

Author:Michael Josephson

“Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.”

Feels Unhealthy Jailer

Author:Molly Crabapple

“So the fact that the grand jury would come back and make the decision not to indict the jailers and not make a decision on Officer Encinia, it makes us feel as though there's not going to be a positive outcome for us in that regard.”

Feels Facts Decision Regard Outcomes Officers Jury Jailer Grand Jury Positive Outcome

Author:Sharon Cooper

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

“Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.”

President Realizing White Special Forgiving Prison Islands Guests Invited Jailer

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”

Teaching Internet Diversity Tradition Social Justice Guides Conformity Free Speech Jailer Summing Up Old Traditions Cultures And Traditions

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”

Mind Force Worst Crime Citizens Victim Dancing Including Committed Execution Brutality Participating Mind Set Tehran Jailer

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.”

Men May Faces Social Relation Fundamentals Every Man Cells Attributes Constraints Approved Jailer

Book:Where the action is: three essays

Source: Where the action is: three essays

“Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.”

Said Impossible Mad Jailer Fortnight

Book:Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

“When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.”

Needs Trying Said Bears Drink Cups Poison Divinity Touched Friendly Calmness Resignation Hem Jailer

Book:How to stop worrying & start living

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn’t going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.”

Kind Feelings Fighting Winning Too Much Particular Lays Sensual Spinning Captivity Jailer

Author:Karen Chance

“He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.”

People Humans Together Young Enjoy Human Beings Existence Laughing Learning Groups Masters Cease Prisoner Pupils Be Young Young And Old Jailer

Book:THE ART OF TEACHING

Source: THE ART OF TEACHING

“Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.”

Motivational Fear Self Improvement Counselor Jailer

Author:Tony Robbins

“The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.”

Source: An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter

“Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free.”

People Thinking Home Hands Names Security Keys Safety Prison Jailer

Author:Rajneesh

“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”

Inspirational Suffering Psychology Depression Prison Where You Are Prisoner Depressing Sufferers Long Suffering Jailer Overcoming Depression Being Depressed People With Depression Feeling Depressed Depression Inspirational Depressed People

Book:Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

Source: Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

“Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.”

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.”

Life Is Death Dying Draws Angel Unwilling Bolts Jailer

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.”

Writing Given Paper Machines Destroyed Bags Odds Toilets Typewriters Eyeballs Toilet Paper Jailer Paper Bags

Author:Sam Shepard

“In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'”

Faces Order Style Judging Balance Citizens Fairs Trials Checks Executives Soviet Twists Jury Legal System Prosecutor Investigators Executioners Abomination Jailer Orwellian Fair Trial

Author:William Safire

“Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers.”

Care Take Care Caretakers Jailer

Author:Jim Rohn

“Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it.”

Source: The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

“I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.”

Men Regard Prison Superiors Jail Prisoner Subordinates Subordination Jailer

Author:Nelson Mandela

“How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.”

Ifs Long Authority Mass Soldier Willingness Policemen Hangman Jailer

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.”

Faces Voice Realizing Steps Changed Survivor Locked Jailer

Author:Tori Amos

“In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors”

History Judging Prison Trials Conqueror Persecuted Jailer Punisher

Author:Eoin MacNeill

“I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.”

Body Company Eternal Silent Companion Jailer

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.”

Source: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

“We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction”

Children Littles Care Roles Environment Take Care Quitting Instruction Surveillance Jailer

Book:The child in the family

Source: The child in the family

“The only people who hate escapism are jailers.”

People Hate Escapism Jailer

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'”

Stills Important Waiting Christ Church Morning Treated Bloody Midnight Identification Membership Heathen Baptized Jailer Church Membership

Author:Jay Adams

“Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?”

Knows Love Made Soul Dream Age House Kindness Self Love Mercy Prison Chains Dependent Cheerfulness Tempest Alone Time Jailer

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.”

Reason Behinds Power Design Ambition Blind Prison Casts Invisible Stealing Bars Cages Captives Jailer Blind Ambition

Author:Jon Anderson

“Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.”

Prison Contempt Jailer

Author:Brendan Behan

“A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.”

Prison Prisoner Jailer

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

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