Quotes About Representation

Ubóstwo to stan niemo?noÅ›ci wypowiedzenia siÄ™. Ludzie ubodzy nie majÄ… gÅ'osu, nie sÄ… nigdzie szanowani, nie sÄ… tolerowani. KtoÅ› musi mówi? w ich imieniu. To jest przyczyna, dla której o nich piszÄ™.

Is history to be considered the property of the participants only?

But now living women wanted to be doll-like, to cross the frontier and look like toys. Now the doll was the original, the woman the representation. These living dolls, these stringless marionettes, were not just dolled up on the outside. Behind their high-style exteriors, beneath that perfectly lucent skin, they were so stuffed full of behavioral chips, so thoroughly programmed for action, so perfectly groomed and wardrobed, that there was no room left in them for messy humanity.

texts don't speak for themselves

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.

He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

Our success is a direct result of knowing how to market a brand and having the right people representing the brand.

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

Entonces aquel escrito acusador que había visto en poder de Villefort, y que había tenido en sus manos, se representaba en su imaginación; cada línea se le aparecía iluminada en la pared como el Mane, Tecel

This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one.

There is no more invariable rule in the history of society: the further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need of extending them; for after each concession the strength of the democracy increases, and its demands increase with its strength.

the advantage of democracy is not, as has been sometimes asserted, that it protects the interests of the whole community, but simply that it protects those of the majority.

In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them.

In the United States, I am not sure that the people would return the men of superior abilities who might solicit its support, but it is certain that men of this description do not come forward.

Parties are a necessary evil in free governments.

The map is not the territory.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

If a woman doesn't write her own history, there are very few who will.