In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank. — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus 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
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
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who… — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability. — Elizabeth Blackwell 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
[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image