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• Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Dimensions, Mausoleum, Force

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.67, Routledge

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• The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Principles, Satisfaction, Pleasure

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.79, Routledge

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• The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Plato, Mass Culture, People

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.67, Routledge

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• That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assembled, for the public good.

  George Mason

  Men, Law, People

  "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

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• That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.

  George Mason

  Men, Law, Land

  "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

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• All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Light, Organization, Evil

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.73

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• We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived of that reasoning power which projects upon things the light of certainty; on the contrary we bring to bear on the spectacle of life only a dubious vision, extinguished anew every moment by oblivion, the former reality fading before that which follows it as one projection of a magic lantern fades before the next as we change the slide.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Animal, Reality

  Marcel Proust (1981). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, New York : Random House

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• Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

  Charles James Fox

  Men, Rights, Natural

  "The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume IV" edited by J. Wright, (p. 192), 1815.

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• 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.

  John Berger

  Home, Common Sense, Ignorant

  John Berger (2015). “A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Comfort, Events

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a  person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Memories, Past, Knowing

  "Folly's Antidote" by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. January 01, 2007.

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• Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

  Malcolm X

  Liberty, Way, Justified

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 45), 2013.

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• No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Skills, World

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• I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.486

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• But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

  Wole Soyinka

  Exercise, Companionship, Kind

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• We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Men, Light

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• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Meaningful, Work, Men

  "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

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• I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

  Bryan Cranston

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks Breaking Bad Season 3 and 4, Total Recall, Drive, Rock of Ages, Larry Crowne & Lincoln Lawyer". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Writing, Mind, Principles

  "President Jimmy Carter Authors New Bible Book, Answers Hard Biblical Questions". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I believe that I was lucky to have suffered.
  Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason.
  Politically, financially, socially or otherwise and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Inspirational, Pain, Business

  "The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides". Jordan Business magazine, December 2006.

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• 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.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Privilege, Vote, Revolutionary

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

  Wole Soyinka

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

  Meryl Streep

  Good Life, Life Is Good, Lucky

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• 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.

  Henry James

  Bored, Feminism, Shut Up

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.603, Harvard University Press

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• People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Dog, Names

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.264, The Floating Press

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