Privation Quotes (6 quotes)

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a cheerful cast.”
― Henry James, The American

tags: convent, meditation, privacy, privation, wordplay

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“It is one of the great ironies of Mormon history that Smith, who set the polygamous movement in motion, never experienced it in practical terms. He was content to marry the teenage women who lived in his home and then let them depart when Emma objected. And he was content to let his polyandrous wives live with their first husbands, so he never bore the responsibility of providing for them, financially or emotionally, on a day-to-day basis. He never witnessed the toll practical polygamy would take on an Eliza Partridge...”
― Todd M. Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

tags: joseph-smith-jr, lds, mormonism, polyandry, polygamy, privation

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“In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, privation should not come with the job description, and survival should not be an aspiration.”
― Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior

tags: employment, poverty, privation, survival, wealth

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“Take the case (to use an easy example) of a river, carrying boats and communicating to them its own velocity, yet limited by their own inertia so that, all the rest being equal, the more heavily loaded will be carried more slowly. Hence it can be stated that the speed of the boats comes from the river, the slowness, from the load; the positive, from the force of the propelling agent, the privative, from the inertia of the propelled. Quite in the same manner it may be said that God contributes to the creatures their perfections, yet is limited by their receptivity. Thus all goods are due to the divine force; the evils, to the torpor of the creature.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Monadology and Other Philosophical Essays

tags: evil, privation, theology

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“If you are rich and full-fed, don’t laugh
at the impulsiveness of the poor.
They were not acting from their souls,
but they were acting out of some necessity.”
― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: poverty, privation, suffering, sympathy

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