Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent"
Deprivation quotes
Deprivation
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Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard."
Rosalind Russell
Actress
"Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?"
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"Deprivation is the mother of poetry."
Laozi
Philosopher
"Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation."
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"Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation."
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"Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation."
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"Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on."
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