Conferred Quotes
69 quotes by 62 authors
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it…
— Charles Babbage
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor,…
— Zebulon Pike
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Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
— David Lloyd George
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a…
— Charles Nicolle
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I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as…
— Wilhelm II
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Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does…
— Mother Teresa
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The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,…
— Joseph Story
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To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the…
— John Quincy Adams
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that…
— Will Durant
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The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but of a strong…
— Barack Obama
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The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility.…
— Walter Karp
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It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his…
— C L R James
Who Wrote These Conferred Quotes
62 authors contributed a total of 69 Conferred Quotes, led by these top contributors: