Deprived Quotes

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 jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

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 to bear them.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.

Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

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 value is to be deprived.

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

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

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.