Deprived Quotes
297 quotes by 272 authors
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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
— Luis Barragan
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that…
— Gregory Bateson
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her,…
— Anne Bronte
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I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or…
— Stokely Carmichael
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When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down…
— Jimmy Carter
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my…
— Marie Antoinette
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
— Thomas Aquinas
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No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education,…
— Jimmy Carter
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The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.
— John Henry Cox
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being…
— Frantz Fanon
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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to…
— Jules Feiffer
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The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
— Clive James
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,…
— Primo Levi
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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More…
— Greg Mortenson
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I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…
— Woodrow Wilson
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble…
— Helen Keller
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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself…
— Agatha Christie
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The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs…
— James Madison
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