Quotes About Conferred

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

There is a psychological dimension to the deniers' and minimizers' objectives: The general public tends to accord victims of genocide a certain moral authority. If you devictimize a people you strip them of their moral authority, and if you can in turn claim to be a victim, as the Poles and Austrians often try to do, that moral authority is conferred on or restored to you. -- Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, pages 7-8

Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.

there because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General, Captain Fatigue, and at the base of all pale Corporal Fatigue, and curious microbes came, came viruses: and the Court conferred on Henry, and conferred on Henry the rare Order of Weak.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

general, knighthood was conferred on those who glorified the Crown through military service

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Anything conferred without commensurate effort is ultimately worthless.