Deprived Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power.…

— Frances Moore Lappé

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts,…

— Lucretius

the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…

— Hannah Arendt

The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks…

— Germaine Greer

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

— Anonymous

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…

— Anais Nin

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…

— Woodrow Wilson

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an…

— Jimmy Carter