Quotes About Representation

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.

Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.

I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

A chosen leader is just the reflection of what the collective mind (or "silent majority") truly think and feel.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.

There are some who contend that we should have retained our seats and "fought for our rights in the Union." Could anything be less rational or less consistent than that a Senator, an ambassador from his State, should insist upon representing it in a confederacy from which the State has withdrawn? What was meant by "fighting in the Union" I have never quite understood

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

In most circumstances, the opportunity to represent the president of the United States is highly coveted, the kind of assignment that would lead many lawyers to find a way around conflicts. But Washington's top lawyers formulated reasons to say no to Donald Trump.

Don't hate the media, become the media.