Deprive
To take away; to put an end; to destroy.
To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
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Deprive Quotations
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
John Stuart Mill
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
Thom Yorke
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Doug Larson
Deprive Translations
deprive in German is berauben
deprive in Italian is sottrarre
deprive in Latin is exuo
deprive in Spanish is privar
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