Deprivation Quotes

“I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Do not deprive the world the gift of your products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

— Plato

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

— Tatum O'Neal

“Employment deprives you of purpose”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

— Amartya Sen

Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

— Laozi

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

— Rosalind Russell

Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk

— Maggie Stiefvater

Constant deprivation is no way to live. Don't always skip the delicious stuff for raw carrots and brown rice.

— Gunnar Peterson

Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn't think it could kill you, but I think it can.

— Maryse Mizanin

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.

— Robert Atkins

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

— Joyce Cary

“How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.”

— Anonymous

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim…

— John Bolton

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

— Joe Rogan

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to…

— Theodore Bikel

“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

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.…

— Irene Khan

Everywhere you look - Britain, the States, western Europe - people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake - a…

— J. G. Ballard

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact…

— Tillie Olsen

Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved…

— John Berger

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

As soon as you lay down, that's when the most bizarre things start coming out of her mouth. 'Goodnight, baby.' 'Do you…

— Adam Ferrara

of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were…

— Zelda Popkin

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical…

— Gay Talese

Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded…

— James Marcus

Throughout my life, I have tried to share my belief that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. My…

— Suzanne Somers

Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave…

— Sandra Scarr

We're in crisis mode as black actresses. It's not only in the sheer number of roles that are offered and that are…

— Viola Davis

Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation.…

— Terry Pratchett

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever…

— Anne Fadiman

“though she isn’t stupid at all. “Wow, other people are mastering this, even people who were as clueless as I was in…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we…

— Tom Robbins

“To set out for rehearsals in that quivering quarter-hour is to engage conclusions, not beginnings, for one walks past the guilded hallucinations…

— Derek Walcott

“those at the very top of the class—are going to face a burden that they would not face in a less competitive…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.

— William C. Dement

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

— Frederik Willem de Klerk

This lifestyle is not about deprivation. It's about living inspired.

— Gene Baur