Deprived Quotes

• Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Men, Addiction

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• Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

  Thomas Paine

  Gun, Order, Law

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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

  Laozi

  Taoism, Deprivation

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• I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread, it's too harsh.

  Donna Air

  Needs, Weight, Pasta

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Forgiveness, Wise

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Errors, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.115

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• Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.

  Primo Levi

  Men, Clothes, Justice

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Clever, Doe, Half

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• When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning... He must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that, if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

  Earl Warren

  Taken, Law, Individuality

  Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 478-79, 1965.

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• Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Teaching, Men, Imagination

  "Lectures on the Essence of Religion". "Atheism alone a Positive View", en.wikiquote.org. 1851.

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• Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Reality, Light

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.110, A&C Black

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• Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed.

  Mancur Olson

  Strong, Attitude, War

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “The Logic of Collective Action”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• [Eva Braun] complained when [Adolf Hitler] was absent, she complained that she was deprived of his company.

  Gretl Braun

  Company, Absent

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• The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

  Monica Crowley

  Might, Information, Week

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• ...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life is a season of repentance, for God 'desires not the death of the sinner', as it is written, 'but that the wicked turn from his way and live' (cf. Ez. 33:11 LXX). For, if there were no hope of turning back, why would death not have followed immediately on disobedience, and why would we not be deprived of life as soon as we sin? For where there is hope of turning back, there is no room for despair.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Cfs, Wicked

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need to take care of the poor, deprived and left behind sections of society.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, Development, Care

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

  Confucius

  Motivation, Army, Men

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.

  Polybius

  Tales, Idle, Left

  Polybius (2003). “The Rise of the Roman Empire”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.

  Theodor Adorno

  Reality, Order, Betrayed

  Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.35, Stanford University Press

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• A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the world, and whom the participation of pleasures or fatigues had endeared to our remembrance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Remembrance, Age

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• Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiring, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Ten Trusts". Book by Jane Goodall, ‎Marc Bekoff, 2003.

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• We know well only what we are deprived of.

  Francois Mauriac

  Wells, Knows

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• Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mother, Simple, Issues

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.

  Dave Chappelle

  Hate, Opportunity, Order

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