Deprivation Quotes

• Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Children, Sleep

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

  Michelle Obama

  Real, Life Changing, Moving

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• To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

  Marya Mannes

  Ethics, Morality, Indifference

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Deprived

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• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  Philip Larkin

  Poetry, Wordsworth, Daffodil

  Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

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• Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

  Rosalind Russell

  Beauty, Starvation, Sensory Deprivation

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• If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Children, Trying, Tough

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• Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Poverty, Isolation

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• If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Philosophy, Sisterhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

  John Bolton

  People, Kim, Blame

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• For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty.

  Richard Leakey

  Creativity, Science, Years

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• The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.

  Leslie Jamison

  Past, Years, Battle

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• The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

  Plato

  Education, Real, School

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.154

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• The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

  Loretta Lynch

  Freedom, Responsibility, Power

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• There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

  May Sarton

  Love, Real, Giving

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Overcoming

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• With confidence we testify that the Atonement of Jesus Christ has anticipated and, in the end, will compensate all deprivation and loss for those who turn to Him. No one is predestined to receive less than all that the Father has for His children.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

  Amy Dacyczyn

  Creativity, Frugality

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• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

  Octavio Paz

  Expression, History, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.172, Arcade Publishing

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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 and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Reality, People, Community

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• Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

  Alan Ladd

  Loneliness, Youth, Host

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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, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

  George J. Mitchell

  Growing Up, Parent, Needs

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• Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Challenges, Inspire

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• Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

  Robertson Davies

  Preparation, Stimulus, Accustomed

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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