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Letter "C" » confers
«When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(Activist)
| About:
Dignity,
Protest
| Keywords:
acknowledge, conferring, confers, confer with, protest, protested, protesting, protests, refusal, Refusals
«Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.»
«We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.»
Author: Sissela Bok
| Keywords:
attraction, breathing, breathing space, confers, earliest, early childhood, experts, imposes, in a sense, secrecy
«He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies»
Author: Tertullian
| Keywords:
confers
«One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others»
«He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved»
«People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Confidence,
Gifts,
Trust
| Keywords:
complete, conferring, confers, confer with, false, inference, inferences, no confidence, ours, rights
«What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
breast, bring to, conferring, confers, confer with, delight, discovery, noblest, pride, swelled, swells, swell up, swollen, walked, walking, with pride
«The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
confers, declaration, Declaration of, Declaration of Independence, denial, denial of, dogma, infamous, The Declaration of Independence
«The followers of each religion call upon One God who is omnipresent and listens to their prayers, be they from any race or whatever language they speak; but it is the same God who confers happiness on all of mankind.»
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