Best Deprived Quotations
297 Deprived quotes by 267 unique authors
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A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is…
— Thomas Merton
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People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among…
— Herbert Hoover
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have…
— Andrew Jackson
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I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented
— Roger Casement
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Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name…
— Frederick Leboyer
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Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash…
— Eva Hart
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Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of…
— Matt Mullenweg
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Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.
— Laozi
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Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
— Agathon
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be…
— Herman Kahn
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
— Jean Rostand
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.…
— Mancur Olson
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This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow,…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.
— Unknown Author
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In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and…
— Shelley Berman
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Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly…
— Arenda L. Wright Allen
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I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's…
— Walter Mosley
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'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is…
— Carl Sagan
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Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards…
— Florence King
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
— Ambrose Bierce
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