The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“It's possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
“A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes a long, long time before we can glean enrichment from the deprivation and suffering which has baffled and overwhelmed us. —Mildred… — Susan Lenzkes Copy Share Image
…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Deprivation draws on two convictions: (1) The deprived person does not believe that he or she is worthy or deserving of pleasure… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines… — Amy Dacyczyn Copy Share Image
“Loss, this was what he felt. Loss and deprivation. One man owns, another man craves - the craving far more passionate than… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new… — Carnie Wilson Copy Share Image
So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“SOME OF THE HARDEST parts of parenting never change—like sleep deprivation, which, according to researchers at Queen’s University in Ontario, can in… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but… — James Gustave Speth Copy Share Image
The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious… — Clive James Copy Share Image
So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce… — Bianca Olthoff Copy Share Image
