Top 45 Deprivation Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Deprivation Quotes from famous people such as Philip Larkin, Amy Morin, Bill Buford, Angus Deaton, Maryse Mizanin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordswort

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
Philip Larkin
Sleep deprivation impairs everything from your motor skills to your reaction time.
Amy Morin
Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don’t visit – a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.
Bill Buford
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
Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn’t think it could kill you, but I think it can.
Maryse Mizanin
Toxicity causes nutritional deprivation – and your body then craves more and more food, trying to get what it needs.
Suzanne Somers
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
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela
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
I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn’t measure excellence.
Angela Rayner
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren’t hungry, they wouldn’t work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
B. F. Skinner
Eating well isn’t about dieting or deprivation, so you shouldn’t feel that you’re bound to certain rules.
Ella Woodward
No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet no one is doing anything about it.
Matthew Walker
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
In 1983, most Nicaraguans had still not fallen to the depths of deprivation and despair which they would reach in later years, but many were already unhappy and restive.
Stephen Kinzer
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
If you’re reaching for a local reference to drop for a place that is typical of everything wrong with Britain, you would switch between Croydon or Bromley. There is a lot of deprivation there, but it’s not one of the poorest parts of the country.
Nish Kumar
I’m always without sleep. I’ve got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
Cate Blanchett
Sleep deprivation can be a serious problem in romantic relationships.
Hallie Jackson
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Alan Ladd
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 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
Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers.
Michele Bachmann
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
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
I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That’s my new way of living.
Carnie Wilson
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
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
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
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
In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choke

In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.
Charles Platt
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
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
Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.
Mary Roach
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
Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
Wendy Kopp
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they’re all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
N. T. Wright
Sleep deprivation over quite a short period of time can make you paranoid.
Michael Portillo
Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
Victoria Moran
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
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
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
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.
Robert Winston
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
Tom Brokaw