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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

Maria Montessori

Children, Roles, Care

Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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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.

Marc Ian Barasch

Life, Thinking, Compassion

Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

Sam Shepard

Writing, Odds, Typewriters

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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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Independent, Long, Substance

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.422, Courier Corporation

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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.

Rajneesh

Home, Thinking, Keys

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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.

Erving Goffman

Men, Cells, May

Erving Goffman (1969). “Where the action is: three essays”, Lane, Allen

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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.

Karen Chance

Fighting, Winning, Feelings

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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.

Tori Amos

Voice, Survivor, Faces

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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.'

William Safire

Order, Judging, Style

"Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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

Alexandre Dumas

Mad, Impossible, Said

Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3117, Delphi Classics

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

Eoin MacNeill

Judging, History, Trials

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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.

George H. W. Bush

Powerful, Years, Grace

"H.W. Bush mistakenly announces death of Nelson Mandela" by Natalie DiBlasio, www.usatoday.com. September 1, 2013.

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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.

Gary Oldman

Thinking, Directors, Talent

Interview With Randy Sue Coburn, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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

Molly Crabapple

Unhealthy, Feels

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

Michael Josephson

Opportunity, Thinking, Organization

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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!

Alan Beck

Dream, Hope, Art

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Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

Henry David Thoreau

Doors, Law, Giving

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War, United States, World

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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.

Gilbert Highet

Learning, Laughing, People

GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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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.'

Jay Adams

Morning, Waiting, Important

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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?

Pearl S. Buck

Love, Dream, Kindness

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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.

Jon Anderson

Ambition, Power, Design

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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?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Wall, Home, Men

"On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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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.

Rush Limbaugh

Islands, White, Forgiving

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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.

Azar Nafisi

Dancing, Mind, Brutality

Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House

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