Quotes About Privation

the Bamboroughs were not-enough-to-eat poor.

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.

There's no way you can convince a conventional military thinker that the price of success in guerilla war is pig shit. They'll accept casualties, privation, hunger, death, destruction, murder and the CIA. But they won't accept unshined belt buckles and they damn sure won't accept pig shit.

A sated man cannot understand a starving one

All that was missing... was everything else.

What you didn't have, you didn't have.

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. If rank and money come with love and virtue also, I should accept them gratefully, and enjoy your good fortune; but I know, by experience, how much genuine happiness can be had in a plain little house, where the daily bread is earned, and some privations give sweetness to the few pleasures.

It's so dreadful to be poor!

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that they still call for equality in slavery. They will endure poverty, servitude, barbarism--but they will not endure aristocracy.

To the starving man, bread is beautiful. To the homeless man, a roof is beautiful. To the drunkard, wine is beautiful. Only those who want for nothing else need find beauty in a lump of rock. "Stolicus

?oveku koji umire od gladi lep je hleb. Besku?niku je lep krov. Pijanici je lepo vino. Samo oni kojima ništa ne nedostaje trebaju lepotu tražiti u komadu kamena. Cosca

To the starving man, bread is beautiful. To the homeless man, a roof is beautiful. To the drunkard, wine is beautiful. Only those who want for nothing else need find beauty in a lump of rock.

Lad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food. There are slow starvations and divers ones. - Doctor Day

Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death.

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

But over these past few weeks, her existence has become tolerable. At least, out on the beaches, her privation and fear are rinsed away by wind and color and light. Most

We know well only what we are deprived of.

Thirst, for who in the time of innocence would have drunk without being athirst? Nay, sir, it was drinking; for privatio praesupponit habitum.

Privatio presupponit habitum Yokluk varl??? ?art ko?ar.

The water supply was poor and food scarce unless you could afford exorbitant prices.

she'd looked it up and read the definition ("deprived of the possession or use of something; lacking something needed, wanted, or expected")