Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the…

— Wendell Berry

“Leaders fly economy. They prefer people around them than luxury.”

— Alin Sav

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

“If you are rich and full-fed, don’t laugh at the impulsiveness of the poor. They were not acting from their souls, but they were…

— Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

... privation is the source of appetite.

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege…

— Hamza Yusuf

“In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, privation should not come with the job description, and survival should not be an aspiration.”

— Sarah Kendzior

“to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get…

— Victor Hugo

“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation,…

— Henry James

“Take the case (to use an easy example) of a river, carrying boats and communicating to them its own velocity, yet limited by their…

— Anonymous

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious,…

— William Cobbett