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Letter "D" » deprive
«The Right of property is the guardian of every other Right, and to deprive the people of this, is in fact to deprive them of their Liberty»
Author: Arthur Lee
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deprive, every other, guardian, People of, property rights, The Guardian
«Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.»
«There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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antisocial, Body of, deprive, desperate, fundamentally, inclination, incurable, methods, opposes, organized society, subtler, ten thousand, usurpation, Wilder
«The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
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abominable, deprive, even chance, grimy, in its own right, Reagan, Reagan administration, snatch, The Choir, wards
«Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.--»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
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deprive, deprives, oxygen, self-respecting, self respect
«The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Life,
Reputation
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contemptible, deprive, deprives, grave, lamented, lamenting, The Grave, weakest, weapon, whisper
«The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
commonsense, common people, compulsory, Compulsory education, deprive, People of
«It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Jealousy,
Liberty
| Keywords:
abuse, deprive, jealousy, supposition, unjust, unwise
«The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of th»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
attentive, beyond doubt, deprive, instances, least resistance, oppressions, rulers
«The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.»
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