Top 45 Deprivation Quotes

In this post, you will find great Deprivation Quotes from famous people, such as Cate Blanchett, Tatum O’Neal, Angus Deaton, Nelson Mandela, Philip Larkin. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

I’m always without sleep. I’ve got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

Cate Blanchett

I’ve overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

Tatum O’Neal

The absence of state capacity – that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted – is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.

Angus Deaton

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Nelson Mandela

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

What they really do during boot camp above all else is they create conditions of extreme stress – whether through sleep deprivation or the cold and muddy weather or just noise or whatever it is – and you have to make decisions, not just for yourself, but for the Marines you’re supposed to be leading at any given moment.

Conor Lamb

I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would qualify my children for the label ‘disadvantaged.’

Shelby Steele

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

Angela Rayner

What government has been doing, we’ve got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.

John Prescott

I think it’s particularly clear in borderline personality disorder (BPD) that there’s a strong association between early environmental deprivation and neglect and abuse and later outcome of BPD.

Simon Baron-Cohen

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

From closing the digital divide to after-school activities and eating well, we cannot afford to ignore the link between deprivation and underachievement.

David Lammy

The greats – they protect their sleep because it’s where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don’t let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment.

Ryan Holiday

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Wendy Kopp

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness… Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

Richard Eyre

The meteoric rise of the ‘wellness‘ industry online has launched an entire industry of fitness celebrities on social media. Millions of followers embrace their regimens for diet and exercise, but increasingly, the drive for ‘wellness’ and ‘clean eating’ has become stealthy cover for more dieting and deprivation.

Rachel Simmons

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

Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.

Choi Si-won

Your subjective sense of how well you’re doing under conditions of sleep deprivation is a miserable predictor of, objectively, how you actually are doing.

Matthew Walker

One of the things that will decline over time is the demand that the society or the government bring forth a particularized racial remedy based on a history of deprivation. That will be even more difficult to do in the future.

Keith Ellison

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God‘s recreating, loving peace.

Thomas R. Kelly

Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.

Michele Bachmann

Eating well isn’t about dieting or deprivation, so you shouldn’t feel that you’re bound to certain rules.

Ella Woodward

Take a walk around many of our cities and you will find areas of deprivation, high worklessness and educational failure only yards from areas of prosperity and employment.

Chris Grayling

Sleep deprivation robs you of mental strength and impairs your ability to deal with stressful events.

Amy Morin

Everybody always talks about it, about how you don’t know love until you meet your baby, and you really feel that. There are no words. It was a really wonderful surprise. And there is no way to prepare yourself for the sleep deprivation and what comes with it.

Hilary Duff

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Paulo Coelho

In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.

Charles Platt

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

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

Victoria Moran

Doing something like ‘Damages,’ I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.

Chris Messina

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

The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central – but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India.

Beeban Kidron

Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn’t think it could kill you, but I think it can.

Maryse Mizanin

I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That’s my new way of living.

Carnie Wilson

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

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn’t have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That’s my new way of living. I always want more and that’s just my life.

Carnie Wilson

Constant deprivation is no way to live. Don’t always skip the delicious stuff for raw carrots and brown rice.

Gunnar Peterson

Anyone who reads ’33 Men’ will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

Jonathan Franklin

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.

Rooney Mara

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

Mireille Guiliano

I have always believed prison can be very, very good for you but not by the act of deprivation of liberty alone. There has to be more to life inside than that.

Ann Widdecombe

Toxicity causes nutritional deprivation – and your body then craves more and more food, trying to get what it needs.

Suzanne Somers