Quotes About Representation

Words are the map not the territory, they are the finger pointing towards the moon not the moon itself.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

those glossy magazines with impossibly beautiful women on the cover and inside. Women with polished mahogany skin who looked like they'd never had a pimple in their lives – nor a decent meal either come to that. Women with teeth which shone like fresh snow in sunshine.

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.

Down here everything is symbol and mystery.

lo que los occidentales llaman "arte" es eminentemente funcional; no representa, encarna.

A symbolic way of coming full circle in a world where representations of heredity express a substantial form of continuity between generations in other respects as well.

People are God's preferred messengers, God's Plan A, because they alone carry his image.

And this gives us a general rule, that the anointing with material oil under the Old Testament did prefigure and represent the effusion of the Spirit under the New, which now answers all the ends of those typical institutions.

no man can express a greater enmity unto or malice against the gospel, than he that should assert or maintain that the faith, profession, lives, ways, and walkings of the generality of Christians are a just representation of its truth and holiness.

I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out there all the time – look at Larry King, for God's sake. He looks like someone's talking underwear. Why not give America a spokeswoman who ain't much to look at but is competent as Hell? If accomplishments actually count for women, this ought to be a no-brainer.

But my writing won't ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are not like mine for that.

Your president only speaks for Americans. American movies speak for your world. Who hasn't seen Wizard of Oz? Or Jaws? Or Star Wars? We've seen them, and we're not even from this planet.

Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

Qualitative research is a situated activity that locates the observer in the world. Qualitative research consists of a set of interpretive, material practices that make the world visible. These practices transform the world. They turn the world into a series of representations, including field notes, interviews, conversations, photographs, recordings, and memos to the self. At

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.