Faith Quote by Patrick J. Carnes

Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

— Laozi

“A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.”

— Alain de Botton

“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce the worst?…

— Bianca Olthoff

“If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.”

— Laurie Helgoe

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

— Margaret Mead

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

— Malcolm Gladwell

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the…

— Eric Hoffer

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

— Amartya Sen

“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the doctrine of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The spirit of poverty always causes a person to do two things: blame their circumstance for their lack, and feel entitled.”

— Kynan Bridges

“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all…

— Roland Barthes

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

— Nelson Mandela