A Quote by Confucius

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

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

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

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Lucretius

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Jane Addams

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.

Forest Whitaker

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

Marcus Aurelius

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Margaret Mead

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

Woodrow Wilson

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

Amrita Rao

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

Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

Gennadius of Constantinople

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

A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.

Dorotheus of Gaza

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

Marcus Aurelius

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