Quotes About Representation

John Kennedy's death had changed everything. "Now I represent the whole country, and I can do what the whole country thinks is right," Johnson said. "Or ought to.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed this Union," she said in 1873 after she illegally cast a ballot for U. S. Grant for president. "And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men.

aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and

We could retell our stories and make them better, more representational or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

So Geographers in Afric-maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er uninhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns

Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

it is also said that it takes the shape of a man pointing to both heaven and earth, in order to show that the lower world is the map and mirror of the higher

Tal vez quiso decir que el mundo visible se da entero en cada representación, de igual manera que la voluntad, según Schopenhauer, se da entera en cada sujeto. Los cabalistas entendieron que el hombre es un microcosmo, un simbólico espejo del universo; todo, según Tennyson, lo sería. Todo, hasta el intolerable Zahir.

We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.

It was the way so many people wanted to see Indians - not as real human beings, but as symbols of something fierce and untamed.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.

Your product has a voice — and it's talking to your customers 24 hours a day.

and powerful towards both the people and the state. He reaffirms the basic cause of 'our revolution', No taxation without representation; he insists that government revenue 'be kept under public control' and not be given over to the banks to speculate with; and he endorses President Jackson's saying 'No where so well deposited as in the pants of the people, | Wealth ain't'.

The democratic idea', he had pointed out, 'was not that legislative bodies shd. represent the momentary idiocy of the multitude.

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to forment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.

Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

It is the oldest depiction of the human body.