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«I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer»

Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn | Keywords: jailer, policeman, soviet, Soviet Union

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

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: dungeon, dungeons, inexorable, jailer

«Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer»

Author: Anthony Robbins | About: Happiness | Keywords: counselor, fear, jailer, let

«Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.»

Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President) | About: Conformity, Growth | Keywords: conformity, jailer, The Enemy

«BEN: You lucky, lucky bastard. BRIAN: What? BEN: Proper little jailer's pet, aren't we? BRIAN: What do you mean? BEN: You must have slipped him a few shekels, eh? BRIAN: Slipped him a few shekels? You saw him spit in my face! BEN: Ohh! What wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face! I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face. BRIAN: Well, it's not exactly friendly, is it? They had me in manacles! BEN: Manacles! Ooh oooh oh oh. My idea of heaven is to be allowed to be put in manacles... just for a few hours. They must think the sun shines out o' your arse, sonny. BRIAN: Oh, lay off me. I've had a hard time! BEN: You've had a hard time?! I've been here five years! They only hung me the right way up yesterday! So, don't you come 'rou-- BRIAN: All right. All right. BEN: They must think you're Lord God Almighty. BRIAN: What will they do to me? BEN: Oh, you'll probably get away with crucifixion. BRIAN: Crucifixion?! BEN: Yeah, first offence. BRIAN: Get away with crucifixion?! It's-- BEN: Best thing the Romans ever did for us. BRIAN: What?! BEN: Oh, yeah. If we didn't have crucifixion, this country would be in a right bloody mess. BRIAN: Guards! BEN: Nail him up, I say!»

Author: Monty Python | Keywords: all right, Almighty, arse, bastard, ben, bloody, Brian, crucifixion, crucifixions, friendly, get away, God Almighty, guards, hard time, hung, jailer, lay off, mess, nail, offence, off guard, Oh Yeah, PET, proper time, put in, Romans, shekels, shines, slipped, slip away, slip off, sonny, spat, spit, the right way, the Romans, yeah

«In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism. All this stuff you read about men yelling and screaming, beating against the bars, running spoons along them, guards rushing in with clubs -- all that is for the big house. A good jail is one of the quietest places in the world. Life in jail is in suspension.»

Author: Raymond Chandler (Writer) | Keywords: animosity, cell, clubs, entries, guards, in suspension, jail, jailer, quietest, reacts, reports, rushing, sadism, spoons, suspension

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

Author: James Russell Lowell (Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: Angel of death, jailer, unwilling

«We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.»

Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President) | About: Nations | Keywords: adopt, conformity, jailer, nations, systems

«Tradition is a guide and not a jailer»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Traditions | Keywords: jailer, tradition

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