Best Deprivation Quotes
133 Deprivation quotes by 117 unique authors
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can…
— Nelson Mandela
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
— Tatum O'Neal
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It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.
— Pervez Musharraf
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Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as…
— Amartya Sen
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My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up,…
— George J. Mitchell
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We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home…
— John Fire Lame Deer
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When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had…
— Jehan Sadat
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Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
— Chris Patten
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A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout…
— Jacque Fresco
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Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.
— Laozi
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Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
— Plato
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On occasion I have observed parents shopping to clothe a son about to enter missionary service. The new suits are fitted, the new shoes are…
— Thomas S. Monson
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[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display…
— Bob Black
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To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is…
— Nelson Mandela
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do…
— Anne Fadiman
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Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important…
— Duane Elgin
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Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.
— Geneen Roth
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We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark,…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in…
— Cheri Huber
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Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.
— Eknath Easwaran
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