Quotes About Representation

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

To model the path of love, is to model the representation of God in your life.

We have to lend our voice to Christ by speaking on His behalf.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.