Confer Quotes

86 quotes by 72 authors

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose… — Bertrand Russell
To photograph is to confer importance. — Susan Sontag
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the… — Lewis Thomas
While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious… — Robert Winston
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world. — W. Somerset Maugham
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung
Professor McGonagall: "Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create â€” or guarantee â€” existence. Hence, my compulsion to make â€œlists.â€ The things… — Susan Sontag
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded… — Mark Twain
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. — Mark Lawson
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it? — Rollo May
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that… — Richard Dawkins
Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which… — Jakob Bohme
Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability… — Jim McGovern
Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One… — Robert Dallek
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and… — Auberon Herbert
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do… — John Strachan
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them… — V.S. Naipaul
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame… — Mark Twain
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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